The story of Joseph Yellow Kid Weil, a man who could and often did pull off scams to outshine The Sting.

In his long career as a confidence man, Joseph Yellow Kid Weil swindled the public of more than eight million dollars and established the reputation for robbery and trickery. Always beating the police at their own game, Yellow Kid used phony oil deals, women, fixed races, and an endless list of other tricks to best an increasingly gullible public. One day, he was Dr. Henri Reuel, a noted geologist who traveled around and told his hosts that he was a...

Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters: welcome to the world of confidence men.

You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his ingenuity $8,000,000 by some estimations. Fixed horse races, bad real-estate deals, even a money-making machine all were tools of the trade for the Kid and his associates: the Swede, the Butterine Kid, the Harmony Kid, Fats Levine, and others. "The Sting" (1973), starring Paul Newman and based largely on the story of the Yellow Kid, is entertaining, but is no match for the real...