YMMV / The Lady Eve

• Magnificent Bastard: The film centers around a trio of charming card-playing con artists that Charles Pike winds up encountering. However, two members of the gang especially stand out.
  • Eugenia "Jean" Harrington is manipulative high-class figure, as well as part of a trio of card-playing con artists. Prior to the film, Jean had charmed various wealthy men with her beauty and lured them into a sense of trust, only to steal large amounts of money from them. Coming across Charles Pike, Jean charms him as well and nearly robs him too until she feels genuine romantic feelings for Charles, to the point where she protects him from her swindling father. When Charles finds out the truth about Jean and breaks up with her, Jean creates an alter ego as the English woman "Lady Eve Sidwich", spends weeks with Charles so he'd fall in love with and eventually marry "Eve", and then tell him about her past suitors so he'd leave her. Jean is about to request a large settlement from Pike's lawyers in exchange for a divorce but suddenly realizes she still loves Charles and manages to reunite with him and reconcile as she officially gives up her criminal ways for good.
  • Colonel Harry Harrington is Jean's equally cunning and charming father. A skilled member of his card-playing trio, Harry is shown to have morals and standards as he truly loves and respects his daughter, and goes by his motto, "be crooked, but never common" and has swindled various rich men out of their money, by cheating in card games where they bet money. When meeting Charles Pike, he acts like a father figure and intentionally loses a card game to him, as a means to gain his trust and fleece him later. When Jean considers going straight, he keeps his cool and subtlety tries to continue stealing from Charles via a card game. He even has Charles make out the check for his winnings of $32,000, and seemingly rips the check up in front of Jean, only to reveal later in the film that he somehow managed to hide it away and had it with him.