An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Scoop trailer
- Director
- Woody Allen
- Writers
- Woody Allen, BBC Films
- Studios
- BBC Films, Ingenious Film Partners, Phoenix Wiley
- Website
- WWW.TFMDISTRIBUTION.COM
- Countries
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla
Cast
British investigative journalist Joe Strombel has just died. Crossing the river to his final resting place, he meets another fellow passenger Jane Cook, who believes she was murdered by her boss, wealthy blue blooded Peter Lyman, as she had circumstantial evidence that he is the notorious Tarot Card Killer, who has murdered a number of short haired brunette prostitutes, leaving a tarot card at the scene as his calling card. Still a journalist at heart despite being dead, Joe tries to channel this information to the living, the strongest pull toward Sondra Pransky, an American journalism student visiting London, she who would probably admit that she is too easily sidetracked to make a good journalist. After doing some research on Joe, Sondra has no reason to doubt what his spirit has told her, and as such decides to investigate if Peter is indeed the Tarot Card Killer. Sondra also decides to enlist the help of Sidney Waterman, a second rate American magician with the stage name "Splendini" if only because it was when he pulled her from the audience of his show to assist with an on stage trick that Joe's spirit visited her for the first time. Masquerading as an eccentric oil baron…
