Main Cast: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Herbert Lom
Release Year: 1980
Country: US
Run Time: 106 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlowe (an amalgam of the names of Bogart's characters from The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep). Sam hires the Duchess (Misty Rowe) as his secretary ("She looked like Marilyn Monroe and made about as much sense as Gracie Allen") and "Sam Marlowe, Private Eye" is in business. Sam gets a meager response until a shooting puts his picture in the paper and business starts to flourish. Particularly attracted to Marlowe's services are a collection of characters -- Gena (Michelle Phillips), an attractive Gene Tierney type; Commodore Anastas (Victor Buono), a Greek shipping tycoon and Sidney Greenstreet lookalike; and the mysterious Mr. Zebra (Herbert Lom doing a Peter Lorre imitation). They are all trying to find the famous Eyes of Alexander -- a priceless set of stones from a statue of Alexander the Great. Also on hand are old Hollywood pros George Raft, Yvonne DeCarlo and Mike Mazurki. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Vou Lee Giokaris - Costume Designer, Oscar Rodriguez - Costume Designer, David McGiffert - First Assistant Director, Robert Day - Director, Eddie Saeta - Editor, Houseley Stevenson, Jr. - Editor, George Duning - Composer (Music Score), John Beal - Composer (Music Score), Robert Kinoshita - Production Designer, Richard C. Glouner - Cinematographer, Andrew J. Fenady - Producer, Melvin Simon - Producer, Richard McKenzie - Set Designer, Andrew J. Fenady - Screenwriter, Andrew J. Denady - Book Author
The Man with Bogart's Face (a.k.a. Sam Marlowe, Private Eye) is a 1980comedy film, released by 20th Century Fox and based on a novel of the same name. Andrew J. Fenady, author of the novel, produced the film and wrote the screenplay.
A man calling himself Sam Marlowe (Robert Sacchi) has his face altered to resemble that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, and then opens a detective agency. At first he and his secretary Duchess (Misty Rowe) have meager business, but things pick up after a shooting puts Sam's picture in the paper. Some ruthless people, who are coincidentally also similar to characters in Bogart films (and played by Victor Buono, Herbert Lom, and Michelle Phillips), are after a priceless set of stones called the Eyes of Alexander (from a statue of Alexander the Great), and Marlowe and Duchess are caught in the middle of it all.
Notes
Robert Sacchi, noted for his resemblance to Bogart, has played similar roles in other movies and television shows.
