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Title: Sporadically Funny Spoof
Review: Writer Neil Simon employs the same approach to humor here that he did in "Murder by Death" by peppering the film with non-stop jokes. The problem is that there are more duds per legitimate laughs here in this send-up of Bogart films. Peter Falk's prescence here redeems the proceedings;he'd be funny reading the phone book. That said, with the material he's given here he may as well have been. Many character actors appear here and are virtually wasted. You could whittle this film down to a fifteen minute sketch for, say, the old "Carol Burnett Show" and you may have a passable enterprise.
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