International title: Nick the Sting
Fernando Di Leo
Geneva, Switzerland. The son of a well-known deceased fraudster, young Nick Hezard is a small time con man, totally unworthy of his "great" parent. Crime boss Robert Clark involuntarily provides Nick the opportunity to emulate his father: after using him to defraud insurance companies by faking a jewel theft, Clark attempts to kill Nick. To exact revenge on Clark, who also killed a friend of his, Hezard conceives an elaborate con, helped by a team of expert scam artists. First he forces the boss to give him 200,000 Swiss francs for protection. This way, funded by his own victim, Nick has Clark arrested by false cops under the charge of a murder that never took place, and transferred in a mock police station, where a false magistrate eventually releases him, allowing Clarke to takes refuge in Venezuela, in exchange for the four million francs paid to him by the insurance company. Turner falls headlong into the trap, and not only loses the money, but also the jewelry.