Frank Abangale

catch me if you can is a good film

Good book too.

Correct name : Frank Abagnale

Great film....seen it 3 or 4 times

Escapes :

While being deported to the U.S., Abagnale escaped from a British VC-10 airliner as it was turning onto a taxiway at New York's JFK International Airport. Under cover of night, he scaled a nearby fence and hailed a cab to Grand Central Terminal. After stopping in The Bronx to change clothes and pick up a set of keys to a Montreal bank safe deposit box containing $20,000, Abagnale caught a train to Montreal's Dorval airport to purchase a ticket to São Paulo, Brazil.

After a close call at a Mac's Milk, he was apprehended by a constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police while standing in line at the ticket counter. Abagnale was subsequently handed over to the U.S. Border Patrol.[citation needed]

In April 1971, Abagnale reportedly escaped from the Federal Detention Center in Atlanta, Georgia, while awaiting trial. In his book, Abagnale considers this to be one of the most infamous escapes in history. During the time, U.S. prisons were being condemned by civil rights groups and investigated by congressional committees. In a stroke of luck that included the accompanying U.S. marshal forgetting his detention commitment papers, Abagnale was mistaken for an undercover prison inspector and was even given privileges and food far better than the other inmates.

The Federal Department of Corrections in Atlanta had already lost two employees as a result of reports written by undercover federal agents and Abagnale took advantage of their vulnerability. He contacted a friend (called in his book "Jean Sebring") who posed as his fiancée and slipped him the business card of "Inspector C.W. Dunlap" of the Bureau of Prisons, which she had obtained by posing as a freelance writer doing an article on fire safety measures in federal detention centers.

She also handed over a business card from "Sean O'Riley" (later revealed to be Joseph Shea), the FBI agent in charge of Abagnale's case, which she doctored at a stationery print shop. Abagnale told the corrections officers that he was indeed a prison inspector and handed over Dunlap's business card as proof. He told them that he needed to contact FBI Agent Sean O'Riley on a matter of urgent business.[citation needed]


O'Riley's phone number (actually the number altered by Sebring) was dialed and picked up by Jean Sebring at a payphone in an Atlanta shopping mall, posing as an operator at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Later, he was allowed to meet unsupervised with O'Riley in a predetermined car outside the detention center.

Sebring, incognito, picked Abagnale up and drove him to an Atlanta bus station, where he took a Greyhound bus to New York, and soon thereafter, a train to Washington, D.C. Abagnale then bluffed his way through an attempted capture by posing as an FBI agent after being recognized by a motel registration clerk. Still intent on making his way to Brazil, Abagnale was picked up a few weeks later by two NYPD detectives when he inadvertently walked past their unmarked police car.[7]

If you watch the clip in the opening post he tells just how much of the film was fabricated.

Catch Me If You Can is the worst film I've ever seen. And the longest, not an entirely welcome combination.

I watched most of it, it made for interesting viewing. Catch Me If You Can is a decent film in my book, I quite enjoyed it personally anyway.

Oct 29, 2018 -- 6:07PM, jed.davison wrote:

Catch Me If You Can is the worst film I've ever seen. And the longest, not an entirely welcome combination.

if its the worst film uve ever seen u clearly havent watched many films!

For those of you who liked 'Catch Me If You Can' I honestly think you'd love the book "Other People's Money" by Neil Forsyth (with Eliot Castro). Eye-opening and on occasions jaw-dropping. A recommended 'True Crime' memoir. 

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Peoples-Money-Britains-Fraudster/dp/0330446010

Catch Me If You Can is a great film imo, probably the only film Di Caprios any good imo.

jed.davison   
Catch Me If You Can is the worst film I've ever seen.


I have to say  after reading that I am quite interested in your top three films.

jed texted me and said his all time FAV was Thew Shawshank Redemption.

**the

Shwshank is a classic so can't argue with that

Timeless movie like Back To The Future

jed didn't actually text me but if he didn't like that film I'll buy him a season ticket for the Emirates Stadium.

Oct 29, 2018 -- 9:55PM, SontaranStratagem wrote:

Catch Me If You Can is a great film imo, probably the only film Di Caprios any good imo.

dicaprio was amazing in the departed, wolf of wall street and the revenant also

Also he was good in 'Django Unchained' and 'The Gangs Of New York', imo.

and Titanic

Agree with DiCaprio films, he's a very good actor although I think he was miscast with Kate Winslet in Titanic (or vice versa)

Miscast in 'The Beach' too, far too pretty. Superb in 'The Wolf of Wall Street'!

Earlier days but a superb performance in 'This Boy's Life' starring alongside De Niro.

Don't forget 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' - One of his finest

Excellent in Blood Diamond too. He's a good actor, plain and simple. Been good in everything I've ever seen him in, with the possible exception of The Beach, which would be a sh!t film whoever was in it.

forgot about blood diamond, another great film

Never heard of Blood Diamond. What is the jest of it and worth renting or streaming?

Oct 31, 2018 -- 10:37PM, stewarty b wrote:

Never heard of Blood Diamond. What is the jest of it and worth renting or streaming?

def worth renting or streaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknIZsvQjG4

heres the trailer for you

Thanks GRANT.