The Man with Bogart's Face

The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)

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Summary: A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of Bogart's most famous characters), hires a ditzy blonde secretary, and opens up a detective agency. His first case is one that would do Bogie proud... (imdb)

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Genre: Comedy

Country: USA

Directed By: Robert Day

Written By: Andrew J. Fenady

Starring: Michelle Phillips, Victor Buono, Franco Nero, Olivia Hussey, Misty Rowe, Robert Sacchi

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TCI	User	Score
na	Seryxa	0	T₃
Amiably nostalgic romp, not too spoofy to be enjoyable for its own sake, but notably underproduced.
na	the_censor	0	T₆
na	filmcricket	46	T₃
na	imdb	59	T₄
na	LPhovercraft	29	T₂
na	HBOsucks	60	T₆
na	massesRasses	59	T₂
na	eggbeater	50	T₅
na	Stain	0	T₁
OK, Robert Sacchi really does look amazingly like Bogie, but the one gag of a guy who looks and acts just like Humphrey Bogart in then-modern-day Los Angeles gets beaten into the ground fast. There are more than a few more serious moments, but they don't work either, and the visual style looks like that of a TV movie