Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis: A low-rent 1940s detective is hired by a femme fatale to solve the mystery of her father's murder - the gumshoe meets Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Kirk Douglas, Veronica Lake and more along the way! A wild private-eye spoof! USA - 1982 - PG

Michel Poiccard is a petty Parisian criminal who aspires to be Humphrey Bogart. After he steals a car and shoots a police officer his life starts to resemble the plots of American gangster films as he dodges cops and plans his escape from the law.

The American painter, Edward Hopper, is among the few artists who truly captured the soul of an era. HIs paintings --of lonely lighthouses, nude women staring into space from nearly empty rooms, brick store fronts the color of dried blood --capture, as few other artists have captured, both the spirit and the alienation of an age. It could be a still-frame from an Alfred Hitchcock movie a stately lighthouse towering above eye level. Were not the blues so beautiful and rich it would be bleak. A window lit interior would be reminiscent of Vermeer but for the missing tapestries. There are no virginals, no Sixteenth Century maps. Just a young woman staring blankly out the open window at nothing at all. Hopper's most famous painting is Night Hawks of 1942 --a depiction of three people together, at night, but alone in a near empty diner in Greenwich Village in the wee, small hours of a morning. It's American 'film noir' set against an imagined sound track, perhaps a sax. A parody of this painting is almost as famous as the original. In it, the diner is peopled by Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Humphrey Bogart. If the street outside is not wet, it should be and will be, soon; if not tonight, some night! Hopper is relevant today in the same way as is Casablanca --also a product of the war year 1942. Both capture the frustration of people alone in an uncaring world. As Rick might have put it then or now, the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in a crazy, mixed-up world, nor our world on the brink of WWIII, another great depression, a police state. Hopper himself claimed no such intention. His purpose --he says --was merely to capture the play of light and shade. He wrote: 'The picture is an attempt to paint sunlight as white, with almost or no yellow pigment in the white. Any psychologic [Sic] idea will have to be supplied by the viewer.' Hopper never intended to develop an American style but did so in sp

Michael Caine pauses in the middle of promoting his new movie, Harry Brown, to share his top 5 favorite movies of all time on The Rotten Tomatoes Show. He includes classics like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Maltese Falcon, proving that The Dark Knight actor is a dedicated fan of both John Huston and Humphrey Bogart. The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema. For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com