In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes
Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlowe (an amalgam of the names of Bogart's characters from
The Maltese Falcon and
The Big Sleep). Sam hires the Duchess (
Misty Rowe) as his secretary ("She looked like
Marilyn Monroe and made about as much sense as
Gracie Allen") and "Sam Marlowe, Private Eye" is in business. Sam gets a meager response until a shooting puts his picture in the paper and business starts to flourish. Particularly attracted to Marlowe's services are a collection of characters -- Gena (
Michelle Phillips), an attractive
Gene Tierney type; Commodore Anastas (
Victor Buono), a Greek shipping tycoon and Sidney Greenstreet lookalike; and the mysterious Mr. Zebra (
Herbert Lom doing a
Peter Lorre imitation). They are all trying to find the famous Eyes of Alexander -- a priceless set of stones from a statue of Alexander the Great. Also on hand are old Hollywood pros
George Raft, Yvonne DeCarlo and
Mike Mazurki. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide