Due figli di...

Titolo originale: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

1988
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1h 50min

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Steve Martin and Michael Caine in Due figli di... (1988)

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.

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Due truffatori cercano di mettere fine alla loro rivalità scommettendo su chi può sottrarre per primo cinquantamila dollari ad una giovane ereditiera americana.Due truffatori cercano di mettere fine alla loro rivalità scommettendo su chi può sottrarre per primo cinquantamila dollari ad una giovane ereditiera americana.Due truffatori cercano di mettere fine alla loro rivalità scommettendo su chi può sottrarre per primo cinquantamila dollari ad una giovane ereditiera americana.

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The teaser trailer features a sequence which does not appear in the final movie. Freddy Benson and Lawrence Jamieson walk along a boardwalk, politely moving out of the way of other people, etc. with a voiceover saying "There are numerous distinguished gentlemen in the world; refined, cultured gentlemen; nice men; but nice men finish last." As the last few lines are spoken, Freddy pushes an old lady into the water, and Lawrence shoves a child's face into his cotton candy. Director Frank Oz has said that audiences were very surprised to learn that the scene was not part of the finished movie

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Freddy passes himself off as a paralyzed naval officer but is wearing the blue dress uniform of a US Army enlisted man with the rank of corporal. The sailors that help Freddy would have picked up on that.

The two sailors are not American, so it is possible that they are not familiar with the uniforms of foreign services.

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[Sitting at the dinner table]
Freddy Benson: Excuse me. May I go to the bathroom first?
Lawrence Jamieson: Of course you may.
Freddy Benson: [after a pause, and with relief] Thank you.

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While the names of Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning appear in the credits as two of this film's three writers, they are actually there just to credit their script for I due seduttori (1964), of which this is a remake.

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Edited into Alias: The Enemy Walks In (2002)

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Puttin' On the Ritz
Written by Irving Berlin

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8/10

whatever happened to the funny comedies of the '80s?

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a wonderful '80s comedy, the type we don't see any longer. Today the humor, for the most part, is vulgar. For some reason, in the '80s, comedies were actually funny.

Michael Caine and Steve Martin are two con man who wind up competing on the Riviera. Caine is a classy con man, Lawrence Jamieson, targeting rich widows as he sports different accents claiming he's funding a revolution for his country, helping the poor, the hungry, etc. Martin is Freddy Benson, lower class but after the same targets.

Freddy asks Lawrence to tutor him in the art of the high-class con. Freddy doesn't want him around as he feels the Riviera isn't big enough for both of them.

Freddy, however, isn't leaving. So they agree on a bet. The first one to strip a young heiress (Glenne Headly) of $50,000 stays, and the other leaves.

What follows is hilarious. Both men are at the top of their game here. Steve Martin can make you laugh with a facial expression. The scene where he attempts to "walk" after being in a wheelchair is a riot.

Caine as Lawrence is brilliant as a suave sophisticate, and his getting the better of Freddy in several scenes is a delight. The end has a neat twist.

This film was adapted into a successful Broadway musical, and it is opening in London starring Robert Lindsay ("My Family"). It's a fun story. Wish today we had more like this.