Taglines: The face may be familiar. The mystery is brand new.
The Man with Bogart’s Face movie storyline. 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…
The Man with Bogart’s Face (also called Sam Marlowe, Private Eye) is a 1980 comedy film, released by 20th Century Fox and based on a novel of the same name. Andrew J. Fenady, author of the novel, produced the film and wrote the screenplay.
The Man with Bogart’s Face
Directed by: Robert Day
Starring: Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Sybil Danning, Gregg Palmer, Richard Bakalyan
Screenplay by: Andrew J. Fenady
Production Design by: Robert Kinoshita
Cinematography by: Richard C. Glouner
Film Editing by: Houseley Stevenson Jr.
Costume Design by: Vou Lee Giokaris, Oscar Rodriguez, Jack Spangler
Set Decoration by: Jerry Adams
Music by: George Duning
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: October 3, 1980
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