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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Buzzn The Tower

Buzzn The Tower

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine) is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson (Steve Martin), shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own work, Jamieson resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, Jamieson challenges Benson to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark first can stay, while the other must leave town. Today on Buzzn The Tower we unearth pure comedy gold as we chat about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Ruprecht to my Lawrence Jamieson, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0

He gets to the door with the woman.

0:07.3

Rupert, it's your brother.

0:09.7

He looks at the woman and says, no sudden moves.

0:13.5

Unlatches the outside, they come in.

0:15.7

In this room, the things that jump out of me.

0:18.0

A birdcage that's over a toilet, a tire swing, like they would have in a chimpanzee enclosure,

0:24.0

monkey slippers, a photo frame with two ribbons in it.

0:27.5

The portrait over the bed, I believe, is of Napoleon, I could be wrong, a telescope.

0:34.3

Jameson turns to Rupert and says, what do we do for Gus?

0:38.1

What did we do when Uncle Ted was here?

0:40.6

And there's the Martin Rupert picks up a big plastic glove, puts it on his hand, puts

0:46.4

like gel on it, like he's about to give an anal exam to someone, and again, Michael Cain's

0:51.9

response to this, Jameson's response to this is so perfect.

0:55.1

Rupert, no, after that, he apologizes.

1:04.1

Welcome to Buzz in the Tower, a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s.

1:08.5

Prepare to be stuffed in our delorean and taken on a trip through the best decade of film

1:12.3

ever.

1:13.3

Hey Mo, we better back up.

1:14.5

We don't have enough road to get up to 88.

1:16.9

Roads?

1:17.9

Well we're going, we don't need roads.

1:19.9

So if you love Catty Shack, the goonies, aliens, weird science, spies like us, the

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