Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
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Roger C. Carmel
- Zorgus
- (as Roger C Carmel)
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- TriviaMae West was originally offered the role of Madame Coco La Fontaine but the producers refused to let her write her own dialogue, so the part went to Ethel Merman.
- GoofsWhen Paul goes upstairs, he looks back at Nikki interacting with a patron of Coco La Fontaine's. As he turns to look over his shoulder, you can see what appears to be studio lighting equipment prominently taking up space on the right side of the frame.
- ConnectionsReferenced in What's My Line?: Ethel Merman (2) (1965)
Featured review
Pretty mid-1960s sex comedy set in Paris, filmed on Universal's back lot, but extremely well faked. It's a rather dark-hearted farce about two buddies, an artist (Dick Van Dyke) and writer who doesn't write much (James Garner) who fake Van Dyke's death to raise the price of his paintings. That in itself is pretty tired satire, and it gets more tired when we're introduced to the two men's ladies, a suicidal local girl (Elke Sommer) and Van Dyke's wealthy fiancee (Angie Dickinson), who faints a lot and gets passed between the two guys like a soda. There's also a cabaret-owner-and-probable-madam (Ethel Merman in a series of bizarre wigs), a Jewish deli owner (Irving Jacobson), a fervent private investigator (Pierre Olaf), and a fair amount of slapstick. Van Dyke's expert and does some cute pratfalls; Garner, playing a real rotter, is atypically shrill and charmless. Dickinson hasn't much to offer but a series of eye-popping fashions, and Sommer is unaffected and delightful. A few laughs, but Carl Reiner and Norman Jewison, having recently delivered "The Thrill of It All," were capable of far better.
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- Bei Madame Coco
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- Gross US & Canada
- $7,630,000
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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