Neil Simon's Bogart parody gets underway with a verbose prologue which reads more like Woody Allen and which brings a smile to one's lips only by misspelling the Philippines. Simon's unnatural marriage of medium-good, cutie-pie Bogart (The Maltese Falcon) and medium-bad, bleeding-heart Bogart (Casablanca) is necessitated not because Simon has so many ideas, but because he has so few. The women in the picture (Marsha Mason, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan, Louise Fletcher, Stockard Channing, and Ann-Margret) succeed in liberating themselves from their role models much better than the slavishly imitative men do; and they are the brightest spots in this duskily colored movie which takes its overall look as well as its cinematographer, John Alonzo, from Dick Richards's Farewell, My Lovely. With Peter Falk, Dom De Luise, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, and John Houseman; directed by Robert Moore. (1978) — Duncan Shepherd
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