Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Dressed to Kill (1980), Brian De Palma.


Oh, dear!  The festival of films Michael Caine did to make a mortgage payment continues.  Dressed to Kill is quite the steaming pile.  Where to start!  Well, the first scene features Angie Dickinson's body double in the shower, and then she goes on a ten minute quest for a missing glove in an art gallery.  They told Dennis Franz:  you're a crass caricature of an Italian-American cop -- run with it!  Rodney Dangerfield's son fron Back to School is channeling Harry Caul and the chubby faced female cop from Robocop is supposedly a sexy young hooker.  All I can conclude is:  I just wanna feel Michael Caine's monohair!   


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