Due artisti della truffa che incontrano le donne per i loro soldi, si scontrano in una località del Mediterraneo. Chi vincerà la scommessa? Il truffatore di alta classe o il truffatore rozzo... Leggi tuttoDue artisti della truffa che incontrano le donne per i loro soldi, si scontrano in una località del Mediterraneo. Chi vincerà la scommessa? Il truffatore di alta classe o il truffatore rozzo?Due artisti della truffa che incontrano le donne per i loro soldi, si scontrano in una località del Mediterraneo. Chi vincerà la scommessa? Il truffatore di alta classe o il truffatore rozzo?
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- QuizMarlon Brando said that he found co-star David Niven so funny, he often broke into uncontrollable laughter during filming, thus ruining many takes. It was so bad that he would have to force himself not to look Niven in the eye during filming.
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Freddy Benson: You ever take a women for 20 bucks?
Lawrence Jameson: No, I'm afraid that's a little out of my class.
Freddy Benson: No it isn't. Think big. You got possibilities. You're not a bad lookin' fella.
Lawrence Jameson: Oh, thank you.
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We meet both of them separately at the beginning, Niven in his guise as a prince living in a palace on the French Riviera, fleecing money from rich tourists trying to free his country from the rebels, presumably Communists. And Brando manages to con his commanding officer Parley Baer more worried about getting his promotion to general than in dealing out justice to the guy who disgraced his daughter into an early discharge with a private separation package.
Brando as civilian meets with Niven on board a train heading to the Riviera and brags about his exploits and talks about trying his luck on the rich babes there. Niven not wanting any competition arranges a small frame up with the cooperation of the police chief Aram Stephen. Of course when Brando gets wise to it, they're forced into a partnership of sorts.
Niven sort of glides right into a part that he's done on many occasions, in this case not even having to rely solely on his considerable charm to carry a weak film. Brando had done comedy on screen before in Teahouse of the August Moon, but the role of Freddy Benson, GI Conman extraordinary fits him far better than Sakini in Teahouse.
If Paul Henning and Stanley Shapiro on hiatus from their rural franchise at CBS had really wanted to make this a better film, they would have invested a surprise in Shirley Jones traditional good girl character. Remember she won an Oscar for playing against type in Elmer Gantry as a prostitute. Think of the ending in the John Wayne film The Train Robbers and think how it would have really fit here.
Still Bedtime Story is not a bad film and it even got remade as the Steve Martin classic, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. And hats off everyone to Dody Goodman, the legendary Fanny of Omaha.
- bkoganbing
- 22 set 2008
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Botteghino
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 6.540.000 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 39 minuti
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1