Description:Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin). He finds a slip of paper containing a list of peoJuliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin). He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are "The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta." Searching for answers, Rigby encounters assorted low-lives: dangerous men and women who were the hallmarks of the classic detective movies of the 40's and 50's. Filming in black and white allows scenes from old movies to be cut into this film. It is through this process that Rigby's assistant is none other than Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) himself.... (more)(less)
"April 11
"Carlotta was the kind of town where they spell trouble T-R-U-B-I-L, and if you try to correct them, they kill you."
After watching Volunteers, I felt like I needed to watch a movie that was actually funny. I saw that this movie was about to play on one of the free movie channels without commercials, so I decided to watch it. This is a spoof of film-noirs and despite the fact that I haven't seen too many, I still thought it was a funny spoof. I thought Steve Martin was just as funny"
raisleygordon added this to a list 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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21/4/12
One of Steve Martin's best imo. The integration of the clips from film noir movies was genius. I can't imagine how long it must have taken them to plan out this movie."
Lamourderer added this to a list 1 year, 1 month ago
"First viewing - Jan. 4th
Supposedly this is a comedy, but in the however-long I watched of it I hardly laughed. And before long I was falling asleep out of boredom with it, so I turned it off to clean the kitchen & go to bed. It failed to lure me in, and then the choice of working in footage from other films just to have Martin's character interact with them felt more gimmicky than anything else.
Perhaps a different mood would earn a more favorable response from me, but I have no plans to tak"
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