Bedtime Story Summary
Director: Ralph Levy
Genres: Comedy
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An exercise in "black humor" bordering on the tasteless, Bedtime Story stars Marlon_Brando and David_Niven as a pair of womanizing confidence tricksters, operating up and down the Riviera. Pooling their talents, Brando and Niven pull off several scams, many of these requiring Brando to pose as a mental or physical defective. Their current "mark" is soap heiress Shirley_Jones, who isn't quite as gullible as she seems. The film's highlights-or low points, depending on one's point of view-feature Brando pretending to be a mentally challenged man with a Napoleon complex, and a paraplegic who is "cured" by Jones' love (remember that this is the same actor who so sensitively portrayed a genuine paraplegic in The_Men). Created by the same folks who brought you such TV favorites as Green Acres and Beverly_Hillbillies, Bedtime Story was remade in 1988 as Dirty_Rotten_Scoundrels, with Steve_Martin, Michael_Caine, and Glenne_Headley in the roles originally filled by Brando, Niven and Jones. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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