Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud
Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud

Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud

7.0

1 hr 25 min

2016-01-24

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Documentary about a bankrupt Jordanian entrepreneur and an unemployed Irish actress who hatch a plan to scam £2.5m off the British taxman by faking the production of a £20m movie. But they are found out, arrested and then bailed. While out on bail, they decide to prove their innocence by actually making a film. They hire a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made micro-budget gangster film director. In 2011, Paul Knight makes their movie for under £100,000 with a cast of soap and gangster movie stars including Danny Midwinter, Marc Bannerman and Loose Women's Andrea McLean. The film's title is A Landscape of Lies. But the cinematic alibi does not convince the jury when the trial runs in 2013. The producers are convicted of tax fraud and given long sentences.

Crime

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Tony Carling

Tony Carling

Narrator

Paul Knight

Paul Knight

Jonathan Sothcott

Jonathan Sothcott

Freddie Foreman

Freddie Foreman

Danny Young

Danny Young

Mel Mills

Mel Mills

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