Death of a Scoundrel

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Death Of A Scoundrel, 1956.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Death Of A Scoundrel, 1956.

European refugee swindler Sabourin (George Sanders) with his "assistant" Bridget (Yvonne De Carlo), whom he met on the boat, has come to Canada to reveal his plot to businessman Wilson (Victor Jory), whose wallet he didn't personally steal, in Death Of A Scoundrel, 1956.

The opening, and little work done by the star George Sanders, as panicked Bridget (Yvonne De Carlo) overcomes the butler (Justice Watson), and finds the plot, in Death Of A Scoundrel, 1956, which RKO made clear was not about the life of the well-known fugitive financier Serge Rubinstein.

George Sanders as supposedly fictional Clement Sabourin, clearly based on then-famous hustler Serge Rubinstein, undertaking a stock parlay and a not-by-chance meeting of wealthy widow Mrs. Ryan, played by Sanders' then ex-wife Zsa Zsa Gabor, in Death Of A Scoundrel, 1956.