Tales from the Crypt: Season 6, Episode 15You, Murderer (25 Jan. 1995)Plastic surgery makes a criminal look like Humphrey Bogart. Director:Robert Zemeckis |
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Tales from the Crypt: Season 6, Episode 15You, Murderer (25 Jan. 1995)Plastic surgery makes a criminal look like Humphrey Bogart. Director:Robert Zemeckis |
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| Humphrey Bogart | ... |
Lou Spinelli
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| John Lithgow | ... |
Dr. Oscar Charles
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| Isabella Rossellini | ... |
Betty Spinelli
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| Sherilyn Fenn | ... |
Erika
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Robert Sacchi | ... |
Lou Spinelli
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| John Kassir | ... |
Crypt Keeper
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| Julie Ariola | ... |
Doris
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| Carl Gilliard | ... |
Paramedic #2
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José Rey | ... |
Paramedic #1
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Plastic surgery makes a criminal look like Humphrey Bogart.
Again, this is more noir than horror but, all in all, quite a delightful TFTC episode (despite a rather weak title). The Humphrey Bogart credit is obviously an in-joke; actually, look-alike impersonator Robert Sacchi is the real star of this episode which displays a tongue-in-cheek approach to murder (extending to the improbable twist ending) and much use of the genre's traditional hard-boiled dialogue. Isabella Rossellini (daughter of a former co-star of the real Bogart) is perfectly cast as a femme fatale; also in the cast: John Lithgow (slimy as ever) and Sherilyn Fenn (as the "dumb" good-girl type). Following the success of Zemeckis' FORREST GUMP (1994), the punning cryptkeeper host of the series appears dressed-up like him and just as the character in that film is made to interact with long-dead personalities, in this case Alfred Hitchcock!