The Man With Bogart's Face
– In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, R..
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).
28 May 1980
English
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Robert Day
Andrew J. Fenady (novel), Andrew J. Fenady (screenplay)
Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey
A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of Bogart's most famous characters), hires a ditzy blonde secretary, and opens up a detective agency. His first case is one that would do Bogie proud...
1 win & 2 nominations.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment