Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Frances Conroy, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Louis Zorich, Meagen Fay, Nicole Calfan, Aina Walle, Cheryl Pay, Nathalie Auffret, Lolly Susi
This is the remake of "Bedtime Story" about a slick Riviera con man Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine) and a scruffy American scam artist Freddy Benson (Steve Martin) who meet on a train. Caine realizes that Martin is planning on infiltrating his territory, theorizing that bad crooks give the sophisticated ones a bad name. The entire tale is a series of sequences in which one con man tries to outwit the other. Fun.
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Impromptu 1991 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Lapine
Cast: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Corraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson, Anna Massey
Novelist Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known as George Sand (Judy Davis), was famous for her wild lifestyle and many lovers, but the frail musician Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant) was her favorite. This is her story, at least as legend has it. Fun.
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The Man Who Haunted Himself 1970  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Roger Moore, Hildegarde Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie, Kevork Malikyan, Thorley Walters, Anton Rodgers, Olga Georges-Picot, Freddie Jones, John Welsh
Harold Pelham (Roger Moore), a successful businessman, has a car accident. Surgery is successful but it appears that his alter ego is released. When Harold gets out, he finds that his "other" self has been acting much differently from him, including a sexual awakening and making different business decisions.
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Scrooge 1970  G, 118 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Michael Medwin, Kay Walsh, Laurence Naismith, Anton Rodgers, David Collings, Roy Kinnear, Paddy Stone, Frances Cuka, Derek Francis, Gordon Jackson, Suzanne Neve
In this musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Albert Finney stars in the title role as Scrooge. The Ghosts of Christmas Past (Edith Evans), Present (Kenneth More), and Yet to Come (Paddy Stone) guide Scrooge on his moral journey, and Alec Guinness appears as Marley's Ghost. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Song ("Thank You Very Much").
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Son of the Pink Panther 1993  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Burt Kwouk, Robert Davi, Graham Stark, Jennifer Edwards, Anton Rodgers, Shabana Azmi, Mark Schneider, Mike Starr, Kenny Spalding, Oliver Cotton, Aharon Ipale
Inspector Clouseau fathered an illegitimate son just as bungling as himself. In this story the son, Jacques (Roberto Benigni), gets in the way of an investigation being led by his father's old nemesis, Commissioner Dreyfus (Herbert Lom).
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| 1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
2. Impromptu (1991)
3. The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
4. Scrooge (1970)
5. Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
aka: Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther
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