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The Puppet Master: Leçons de manipulation

Titre original : The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman
  • Mini-série télévisée
  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • 50m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
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8,6 k
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The Puppet Master: Leçons de manipulation (2022)
A jaw-dropping story of one of the world's most audacious conmen, Robert Hendy-Freegard.
This chilling series explores the story of Robert Freegard, who, over the course of two decades, controlled, conned and fleeced at least seven women and one man out of almost one million pounds, with his devious charm.
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CriminalitéCrime véritableDocumentaireDocumentaire sur la criminalité

Dans cette série documentaire poignante, un cruel arnaqueur déguisé en espion britannique manipule et vole ses victimes, laissant des familles ruinées dans son sillage.Dans cette série documentaire poignante, un cruel arnaqueur déguisé en espion britannique manipule et vole ses victimes, laissant des familles ruinées dans son sillage.Dans cette série documentaire poignante, un cruel arnaqueur déguisé en espion britannique manipule et vole ses victimes, laissant des familles ruinées dans son sillage.

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    • Stephen Corrall
    • Sophie Clifton
    • Jake Clifton
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    • Stars
      • Stephen Corrall
      • Sophie Clifton
      • Jake Clifton
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    • 11Commentaires de critiques
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    Stephen Corrall
    Stephen Corrall
    • Peter Smith
    Sophie Clifton
    • Self - Sandra's Daughter
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    Jake Clifton
    • Self - Sandra's Son
    • 2022
    Peter Smith
    • Self
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    Sarah Smith
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    Mark Clifton
    • Self - Sandra's Ex-Husband
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    John Atkinson
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    • 2022
    Charlie Ives
    • Sarah Smith
    Richard Peter O'Sullivan
    • Bob Brandon
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    8arungeorge13

    Yes, this ranks right up there in the list of must-see true crime documentaries! [+80%]

    Robert Freegard may well and truly be one of the greatest conmen ever to walk the face of Earth. The series unfurls in a non-linear fashion, making it a true-blue thriller where the makers cleverly leave clues for the audiences to connect the dots. Moreover, all the interviews are spot-on. And the RIGHT set of people is given all the weightage, i.e., the victims and their families. This docu-series runs roughly for 2 hours, taking us through details of Freegard's well-known cons while subtly telling us that the list of victims is a lot larger than we can imagine.

    Another feather in the cap for Netflix in their true-crime section, The Puppet Master, is fantastically shot, crisply compiled, and stays rooted to its emotional core even when it thrills and leaves us frequently bewildered.

    P. S - Would you believe me if I say that there are genuine nail-biter moments? That's right. You wouldn't want to press the pause button! I also hope his latest victim realizes what she's going through and acts upon it sooner than later.
    8Calicodreamin

    Concise doc on a prolific conman

    The most amazing part of this whole thing is the master manipulations this one man is able to pull off with so many different people. The doc does a good job of interviewing relevant people and keeping multiple timelines going on at the same time. Unfortunately not all stories are resolved, but that's life.
    6phuul

    Not sure what to think of it

    Well, it is the first time I have heard of the story so I was pretty intrigued. However, now after finishing it I am left puzzled at how he managed to trick the people into believing all this crap. They just said that he was very convincing but I just don't buy it. And the story fails to give any explaination on how one person manages to do all this by himself, how he could possibly handle different people during the same time while also going to work. It must have been a lot of planning. The whole storytelling is not 'round'. I feel sorry for the victims and I do not want to do victim blaming. However, that is what the whole story fails. It just doesnt give answers. Like the tinder swindler gives a good explaination on how he was able to pull his thing off and make them all fall for him. I mean, of course, the 90ies were different and people didnt have much access to information and maybe people were more gullible back then. But nonetheless. What does it take to be as convincing to make people believe you were actually working for MI5 and hand over all their money??? How can someone not realize after a short time that this was only about money??? I still have no answer. Above all, every little kid knows that nobody really working for an intelligence service would ever disclose this information at any time. Now somebody comes around the corner and keeps on bragging about it. How can you fall for it? I still don't know since I havent got any answer. This documentary is a nice time pass, however, I will now have to look the story up online in order to find out more about it, which is actually a bad sign after just having seen a documentary on it.
    8Lejink

    Stringing Them Along

    I watched this docu-series on con-man Robert Freegard not long after watching a similar exposé on the playboy fraudster Simon Leviev and of course there are both a factual and dramatic series on Anna Delvey also out there at present. It seems it's TV open-season on large-scale tricksters like these and I certainly find them fascinating. The sad thing about this one is that, as the title implies, the perpetrator here, after being caught and freed once hasn't yet been rediscovered, never mind caught again.

    I'll call him Freegard although other pseudonyms are available and a nasty piece of work he seems to be. His M. O. seems to see him claim to be in MI5 and use this phony establishment status to coerce his victims into slavishly doing what he wants as well as extorting every last penny he can from them and their families along the way.

    Although principally running two parallel story-lines, one present day, the other back in the early 90's, the narrative also draws in two other victims of this "puppet-master" to further bolster the story.

    Story one concerns a young male student based in Ireland, who bumps into a young barman who tells him a fantastical tale about him being a British secret-service recruit against the then active I. R. A. So he convinces his prey, plus his then girlfriend and another young girl companion to go with him on a seemingly never-ending road-trip ostensibly to keep them safe from harm as the IRA apparently has a death-threat against the three of them. They return to England but stay on the run, stopping off at dingy "safe-houses" along the way. Astonishingly, this goes on for nine years with the three young people completely convinced of their imminent danger. But this protection comes at a price and soon he's forcing his hostages to go back to their families and get as much money out of them as they can ostensibly for his expenses, to be paid of course, straight back to Freegard.

    The programme fast-forwards some fifteen years or so to a simpler but no less bizarrely compelling tale of a handsome stranger preying on a single mother, effectively cuckooing the woman's two children out of the family home and again making her accompany him on a non-stop tour of Europe. The show then shuttles between both stories showing the strenuous efforts of their respective families to rescue the brainwashed victims, as well as the debilitating psychological effect on them all.

    We learn that Freegard (what an ironic name that is!) was once a successful car-salesman but even that seems insufficient to explain how he is so successful at controlling and using people. Two other victims are brought forward and with the police's help, a sting is carried out on Freegard which brings him finally to justice and given a life sentence only to see him get off on a technicality, leaving him free to go after his current victim, where, sad to relate, he apparently is working his black magic again preventing the poor woman from seeing her two distraught children.

    The show uses actors to speak for some of the key players which I found a little distracting and I also found the time-switch presentation a bit frustrating at times. Nevertheless this was a remarkable, almost unbelievable story, powerfully told. Yes, we the viewer might wonder at the duplicity of the various victims here but I guess it's true what they say that the devil doesn't always appear with a cloven hoof and pointy tail.
    6aarpcats

    Family nightmare

    The series does a great job of showing the damage a conman does by interviewing the relatives of the women he has taken away from them. It is heartbreaking to hear children talk about being abandoned by their mother, and to hear a dad say, "Then I knew it was about the money," (I would have given anything to have Peter Smith for my dad.)

    That said, when the conman's preposterous lies are revealed, it's really hard to see how those women could have been that naive. Or, maybe, a better way to say this is that it's hard to understand how a conman knows how to find the women when they are both deeply vulnerable and have money. A conman is a psychopath. A conman who gets a Netflix series is a conman who is a psychopath with good hunting skills.

    Always do a background check, and never lend money, folks.

    The series isn't perfect, but it's short, always remembers the victims and won't waste your time,

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