Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of the 1964 film farce Bedtime Story. Steve Martin and Michael Caine take over the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and David Niven: two international con artists, plying their trade on gullible wealthy women up and down the Riviera. Martin and Caine vie over the honor of fleecing ingenuous heiress Glenne Headly (in a role originated by Shirley Jones). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 14
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
• Audio: PCM Stereo, 5.1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Subtitle: Spanish, English, French
• Features:
  • • Audio commentary with director Frank Oz
    • Behind-the-scenes featurette
    • Teaser trailer
    • Original theatrical trailer

AWARDS

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comed - 1988 (Michael Caine)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Frank Oz

• Producer:

  Bernard Williams

• Screenwriter:

  Paul Henning, Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro

• Cinematographer:

  Michael Ballhaus

• Songwriter:

  Alexis Dubin

• Featured Music:

  Dorothy Fields

• Composer (Music Score):

  Miles Goodman

• Featured Music:

  Jerome Kern, Harry Warren

• Editor:

  Stephen A. Rotter, William Scharf

• Production Designer:

  Roy Walker

• Art Director:

  Damien Lanfranchi, Steve Spence

• Executive Producer:

  Dale Launer

• Set Designer:

  Rosalind Shingleton

• Costume Designer:

  Marit Allen

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Ivan Sharrock

• Makeup:

  Pascal Charbonnier, Janet Flora

• First Assistant Director:

  Bernard Williams, David Tringham

• Stunts:

  Terry Walsh

• Casting:

  Debbie McWilliams, John Lyons, Donna Isaacson

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Alan Splet

REVIEW:

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels harks back to the era of suave 1950s and '60s caper films -- specifically, the 1963 David Niven/Marlon Brando vehicle Bedtime Story, on which Scoundrels's script is based. Michael Caine plays the slicker member of the anti-hero duo with perfect English ease, and Steve Martin is inspired as his gauche American counterpart. Scoundrels features an involved and complicated plot, with as many twists and turns as a decent mystery; the film unfolds like a broad, comic version of the The Sting. Director Frank Oz's only previous adult-oriented film was 1986's Little Shop of Horrors, and with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels he firmly established the fine comic form that he would perfect with In & Out (1997) and Bowfinger (1999). The lush French Riviera environs are adroitly shot by Michael Ballhaus. ~ Matthew Doberman, Rovi