Drop Dead, Darling (1966)
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This uneven black comedy went into production as My Last Duchess. It then went through three title changes, representing, in the words of historian Leslie Halliwell, "a descending order of wit": Arrividerci, Baby, Drop Dead, Darling, and You Just Kill Me! Tony Curtis plays a charming contemporary Bluebeard who murders a succession of wives in order to fatten his bank account. At the beginning of the film, the 42-year-old Curtis, decked out in Buster Browns, does in his own stepmother. The remaining murders alternate between moderately amusing and just plain silly; our favorite scene is the disposal of Zsa Zsa Gabor, but that's just on basic principles. Curtis finally meets his match in a much-married widow who plots his demise (a plot point which, incidentally, was planned and abandoned for Chaplin's far superior Monsieur Verdoux). Director Ken Hughes and Ronald Harwood based their screenplay upon the Richard Deming novel The Careful Man. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Tony Curtis - Nick Johnson
- Lionel Jeffries - Parker
- Nancy Kwan - Baby
- Anna Quayle - Aunt Miriam
- Mischa Auer - Romeo
- Alan Gifford - American Brasshat
- Monte de Lyle - Butler
- Eileen Way - Italian Dressmaker
- Gabor Baraker - Gypsy Baron
- John Brandon - Radio Engineer
- Franco Derosa - Romano
- Henry Vidon - Priest
- Jacqueline Bisset
- Rosanna Schiaffino - Francesca
- Zsa Zsa Gabor - Gigi
- Fenella Fielding - Lady Fenella Fawcett
- Warren Mitchell - Conte de Rienzi/Maximilian
- Noel Purcell - Daniel O'Flannery
- Joseph Furst - German Brasshat
- Bernard Spear - French Inspector
- Bruno Barnabe - Head Waiter
- Eunice Blalck - Matron
- Windsor Davies - Radio Engineer
- John Fordyce - Boy in Orphanage
- Raymond Young - Photographer
- Miki Iveria - Second Maid
- Director(s):
- Ken Hughes
- Writer(s):
- Ken Hughes
- Producer(s):
- Ken Hughes
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