Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Orson Welles
Oja Kodar
Elmyr de Hory
Clifford Irving
Laurence Harvey
Edith Irving
David Walsh
Paul Stewart
Richard Wilson
Joseph Cotten
Howard Hughes
Richard Drewett
Alexander Welles
Gary Graver
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Julio Palinkas
Christian Odasso
Françoise Widhoff
Peter Bogdanovich
William Alland
Mark Forgy
Nina van Pallandt