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The Man With Bogart's Face (1980)

Starring: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero Director: Robert Day Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Misty Rowe
  • Directors: Robert Day
  • Writers: Andrew J. Fenady
  • Producers: Andrew J. Fenady, Eddie Saeta, Melvin Simon
  • Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Image Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: July 10, 2001
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005KH2F
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #76,005 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
  • For more information about "The Man With Bogart's Face" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Nostalgic send-up of Bogart detective films of the '40s boasts a spot-on impression of the famous star by Robert Sacchi, who made a career doing mostly the same. (That's him in the Robert Zemeckis-helmed "You, Murderer" episode from Tales from the Crypt). The premise is that Sacchi plays a retired cop who gets plastic surgery to make himself look like Bogart, and then sets up shop as a private dick named Sam Marlow. But the plot is really just an excuse to pay tribute to Bogart's detective films. Sacchi's channeling of Bogie is so uncanny you'll be positively mesmerized for about 30 minutes. And that's the problem. While this amiable pastiche might help while away the evening in nostalgic reverie, it does a major disservice to the films it appears to idolize. That's the problem with nostalgia: it usually jettisons all the depth and complexity of the original, leaving an indistinct fifth-generation clone, a fuzzy Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox. So when the novelty of the flick begins to wane, there's only the plot to fall back on for interest. And the plot is only there to have something upon which to hang references to Bogart flicks. The story largely mirrors The Maltese Falcon, with the great whatsit, the things dreams are made of, being a pair of sapphires known as the "eyes of Alexander." The cast is composed of simulacra of past film greats: Gene Tierney (Michelle Phillips), Sidney Greenstreet (Victor Buono), and Peter Lorre (Herbert Lom)--not so successful, that last one. --Jim Gay

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars OK Evening's Entertainment, May 4, 2003
Fun to see Mike Mazurky, Henry Wilcoxon, and George Raft in bit parts. Fun to see Robert Saachi do a spot-on impersonation of Bogart. The best unplanned fun is viewing the cheesy 70s TV-movie values that add to the nostalgia of the film.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable and lightweight..., June 1, 2002
Andy Fenaday's scipt follows self-employed detective (Scacchi, who's incredible) as he gets wrapped up in a MALTESE FALCON-type mystery. Heavy doses of amusing dialog, crammed with old movie references, this movie is better than FLETCH. A lot of fun and worth repeated viewings. A must for movie buffs. Good family viewing, with older kids. Rated PG for profanity, violence, and mild sexual innuendo.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A sweet bit of noir, May 11, 2001
Robert Sacchi attained minor celebrity in the 70's and 80's for his uncanny resemblance to Bogie and parlayed it into a career in TV commercials and cameo movie roles, most notably in Woody Allen's PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. This vehicle is built around his unique "gift." It's an unremarkable but highly likable send-up of the great private eye flicks from the 30's and 40's - its most obvious inspiration being THE MALTESE FALCON, but there are allusions to THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI and other classics as well.It is chock full of hard-boiled banter and shadowy frames and shadowy characters and probably would have been better shot in black and white to capture the true ambience and ambiguities of the originals it seeks to imitate.

Same Marlowe is hired to find "the eyes of Alexander", sapphire replicas of Alexander the Great's eyes used in a bust of the conqueror, and during the search he runs into a snag of competing interests, all played by well-known character actors, Victor Buono and Herbert Lom among them. The plot, however, is superfluous, as it almost always is in detective films. The real point of the movie is to pay tribute to old time movie magic, and part of its fun is in the cameos. Apart from bit parts by the likes of George Raft, watch out for appearances by famed Hollywood reporters James Bacon and Robert Osborne as well (the latter now the host of cable's Turner Classic Movies).

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good adpation of a fun novel
It's been a quite a few years since I saw this film, but it held up quite well. I first read the novel when it was published. Read more
Published 19 days ago by Allen Blank

5.0 out of 5 stars Sam Marlow in "The Eyes of Alexander"
All Bogie fans, in fact ALL lovers of classics should see THE MAN WITH BOGART'S FACE. It stars Robert Sacchi, who is an uncanny double for Mr. B. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Annie Van Auken

5.0 out of 5 stars Michelle Phillips PLUS Sybil Danning!!!
I first saw this movie in an almost empty cinema back in 1980 when I was 20. My how Time flies!!! The cinema next door was packed with yuppies of dubious and questionable... Read more
Published on July 3, 2005 by John Baranyai

1.0 out of 5 stars They found Bogie's double, why couldn't they find a script?
Bogart is cloned, but so what? It could have been great. In addition to finding Bogart's exact double, they managed some pretty impressive cameos such as Mike Mazurky who just... Read more
Published on January 4, 2005 by Kristopher Haines

2.0 out of 5 stars This is bogart BUT the plot is silly and at times perverted
5 stars to the actor playing bogie,he has the voice,look, manors and style PERFECT. however the golden age of movies did not have curse words & naked women and i really doubt the... Read more
Published on February 14, 2003 by Something Special INC

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Spoof
Sacchi is the best Bogart impersonator ever... dry and droll as Sam Marlowe! The music from award winning composer George Duning [From Here To Eternity, Picnic, The World of... Read more
Published on August 25, 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Bogart's not for everyone...just the cool people.
Okay, Robert Saachi can't quite act. He just barely passes off looking like Bogart. But everybody else in the movie CAN act; more specifically, act like character archtypes from... Read more
Published on July 7, 2000 by Vinnie Bartilucci

5.0 out of 5 stars the man with bogart's face
For me, this was a thoroughly enjoyable movie. If you're a Bogart fan and enjoy playing name that tune, you'll see references throughout this one. Read more
Published on May 30, 2000 by John H Davis

2.0 out of 5 stars It's Got Sybil Danning. That's It.
Not many filmmakers would build an entire movie around the fact that their star resembles a celebrity, but these guys did. Read more
Published on May 19, 2000

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