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Diamond's Edge (1988)
"Just Ask for Diamond" (original title)

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Colin Dale ...
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Mr. Patel
Dursley McLinden ...
José René Ruiz ...
Johnny Naples (as Rene Ruiz)
Michael Robbins ...
Fat Man
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Lawrence
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Betty Charlady / Brenda von Falkenberg
Jim McManus ...
Hammett
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Jack Splendide
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Forbes Collins ...
Henry von Falkenberg
Peter Eyre ...
Nickolas Grace ...
Himmell
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Bouncer
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When all seems lost... just ask for Diamond!

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Comedy | Crime | Family

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30 November 1990 (USA)  »

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The Diamond brothers are in a theater watching "Murder, My Sweet'. When they leave, the marquee reads, "Farewell, My Lovely. See more »

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Features Farewell My Lovely (1944) See more »

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"Uncle Holly's Song"
Lyrics written and sung by Wee Papa Girl Rappers (as The Wee Papa Girl Rappers)
Music by Trevor Jones
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A rare gem
27 May 2006 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

Take a wise cracking thirteen year old kid whose elder brother is an inept gumshoe, a host of classic British Actors (Jimmy Nail, Susannah York, Saeed Jaffrey, Roy Kinnear) amongst others, an intelligent plot and witty script from the pen of Anthony Horowitz (based on his own novel 'The Falcons Malteser'), a cult - and rather obscure - Brit heavy rock band (Mammoth) to play a gang of heavies; film it around North London in a classic film noir style and sprinkle with a cartload of tongue in cheek references to some of the greatest noir thrillers of all time and you have cooked up a rather tasty family friendly film that is a real joy to watch.

This film works on so many levels, it's well paced with so great moments of slap stick (such as the dropping of a grand piano onto a van full of bad guys) and full of crooks cartoony enough to entertain the kiddies, yet at the same time if full of enough references and in jokes to movies such as Kiss Me Deadly, Cassablanca and (of course) The Maltese Falcon to keep the hardened film buff entertained for hours.

This is the kind of left field quirky comedy that the British do best and is well worth 94 minutes of anybodies day to watch.


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