The Man With Bogart's Face (1980)

Director
Robert Day

Main cast
Robert Sacchi; Franco Nero; Michelle Phillips; Olivia Hussey; Misty Rowe

Genres
Comedy, Thriller

Description
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).


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