Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
- father murder
- nostalgia
- parody
- los angeles
- california
- black and white
- private detective
- list
- private eye
- 1940s
- old footage
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Steve Martin
Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward
Juliet Forrest
Alan Ladd
(in "This Gun For Hire") (archive footage)
Carl Reiner
Juliet's Butler / Field Marshal Wilfried von Kluck
- Barbara Stanwyck — (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
- Ray Milland — (in "The Lost Weekend") (archive footage)
- Ava Gardner — (in "The Killers" / "The Bribe") (archive footage)
- Burt Lancaster — (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
- Humphrey Bogart — (in "The Big Sleep" / "In a Lonely Place" / "Dark Passage")
- Cary Grant — (in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
- Ingrid Bergman — (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
- Veronica Lake — (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
- Bette Davis — (in "Deception") (archive footage)
- Lana Turner — (in "Johnny Eager" / "The Postman Always Rings Twice") (arch
- Edward Arnold — (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
- Directed
- Carl Reiner
- Written
- Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Steve Martin
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 462 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society
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