Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster
DVD Release Date: March 16, 1999
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September 23, 2009Slightly funny but not much. Good editing and clever idea, for the first five minutes that is, then it gets a bit boring!
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August 7, 2009Luckily, this affectionate parody of Film Noir from Steve Martin was made deep, deep back in the mists of the dawn of time, when giant reptiles ruled the Earth and he was still funny. Cleverly splicing in sequences from several movie classics, it tells the story of Rigby Reardon,...( read more)
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August 4, 2007A classic Steve Martin detective noir, which cleverly integrates clips from real classic movies to tell a coherent and funny story. I still laugh at the scene with the coffee bag.
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September 26, 2009Amazing how they mixed the old movies into this movie the way they did, it's worth seeing just because of that.
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June 14, 2009Can't remember the last time that I laughed so much during a movie; a hilarious persiflage on old detective flicks and film noir, using original scenes from movies including Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman. I only felt that they could have made more out of this i...( read more)
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April 13, 2009I wouldn't have enjoyed this movie as much if I hadn't gone through a crapload of noir classics over the past year. All of that recent experience made this movie lots of funny. But in a TV sort of way - not a major motion picture way.
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