The Spanish Prisoner

The Spanish Prisoner, directed and written (and overwritten) by David Mamet, is a convoluted twist on the thriller genre, a daytime neo-noir in which an ordinary working Joe (Campbell Scott, whose character really is named Joe, in case we miss the point; he's ordinary!) is set up as the fall guy for a pretty ambitious and well-organized ring of thieves and con artists. It's a tricky plot, and