
Painter Paul Sloan feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Therefore, Paul, together with his friend Casey Barnett, plans to fake his own suicide. However, it starts looking like Casey has murdered Paul and when Casey starts making a move for Paul's fiancée, he decides to get revenge. However, Paul falls in love with Nikki, who has also tried... (Full plot summary below)
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Painter Paul Sloan feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Therefore, Paul, together with his friend Casey Barnett, plans to fake his own suicide. However, it starts looking like Casey has murdered Paul and when Casey starts making a move for Paul's fiancée, he decides to get revenge. However, Paul falls in love with Nikki, who has also tried to commit suicide.
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| VarietyVariety StaffWriter Carl Reiner and director Norman Jewison go aground by allowing too many bits to fill their pot. |
| New York TimesEugene ArcherNobody demands probability from a farce, but this one keeps its hapless actors so busy explaining what is going on that they have no time to stay for laughs. |
| User ReviewDiana WCute, cute, cute. of course, I'm an artist. |
| User ReviewLorraine Gjust fun..love this old stuff...great memories |
| User ReviewGreg WIt's been a long long time since I seen this one, but I thought it was a really funny plot where a poor artist fakes his death to sell his paintings and then James Garner (Maverick) get accused of his murder and has to be saved from the Guillotine. Really good cast. |
| User ReviewRobin PThis is a funny movie!! It's about time Flixster got it listed! |