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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 29962
Released: December 17, 1997 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A connoisseur of conning, Lawrence Jamison is running the ultimate royal scam on the Riviera--he's posing as a deposed prince raising funds for the freedom fighters of his stricken homeland. But his "hustling highness" gets royally flushed when a pretender to his throne turns up. He's Freddy Benson, a small-time scam artist who has enough on Jamison to make a mess of the monarchy. So the rivals make a wager--the first to extract $50,000 from the next woman they see, wins. And the loser goes into exile.
Description of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels:
Freddy Benson (Steve Martin) is a crass, loud American. Laurence Jameson (Michael Caine) is a suave, urbane European. Their common ground is that they both are confidence men, and they meet in a train compartment as Benson is scamming his way across Europe, taking advantage of women's generosity. The two are forced into a rivalry, which culminates in a wager to see who can be the first to bilk $50,000 out of American heiress Janet Colgate (Glenne Headly). Their game of one-upmanship is, of course, brought to ridiculous heights as things progress. Written by Paul Henning (the mind behind such TV shows as Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is an uneven but funny mix of Martin's physical comedy and Caine's oily charms. Martin's first role as cohort is to assume the persona of Ruprecht, the "special" younger brother intended to scare off potential brides. As Ruprecht, he comes off as a cross between The Andy Griffith Show's Ernest T. Bass and Jerry Lewis; hilarious as it is, it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the film. Once the wager is on, though, Martin slips into his overly earnest mode as an American military man suffering from hysterical paralysis, with Caine as a psychologist who takes on his case. All in all, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (a loose remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando) is a droll, intelligent comedy, short on knee slappers but long on comic situations and characterizations. --Jerry Renshaw
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Reviews:
May I go to the bathroom First? 
2009-12-10 - ......
Thank You.
Phew!.
OMG. This has been the best repeatable comedy ever! Seen it a gazillion times and still wouldn't mind getting a Blue Ray version whenever MGM gets of their butt and release it on Blue Ray.
Michael Cain is spectacular. One of his other buddy movie is "The Man who would be King" with Sean Connery. If you have not see that, you should. Thats not a light comedy as this...but still an awesome buddy movie.
Steve Martin did his part very well too in this movie and so did Glenne Headly and all the other supporting actors. Brilliant.
There was not 1 second of unfunny fluff in this movie.. It takes off like a rocket and never comes down! When ever I put this DVD in the player, I have a smile on my face that never wears off!
dirty rotten scoundrels
2009-12-05 - This is a great, funny movie. It was delivered quite promptly. Thumbs up on both counts
Dirty Rotten Scoundels DVD on Blu-ray
2009-11-16 - Dirty Rotten Scoundels DVD on Blu-ray player goes occasionally goes black so keep you old DVD player to play this DVD.
Frank Oz's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
2009-10-11 - A remarkably funny film, by the amazingly multi-talented Frank Oz (best known, though anonymously usually, for his Miss Piggy). Will have you laughing out loud!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels DVD Review 
2009-10-01 - This is an entertaining film because of Sir Michael Caine, who is the real funny character, which shows what a versatile actor he is. Mr. Steve Martin is a fine comedian; however, in my opinion, the silly character that he played, diminished the overall quality of this film. The fact that this film was shot on location was a plus.
