CodeOctober 2018
10 Rakish Comedies to Watch
They may be played for laughs, but these 10 movies are brimming with serious style. No joke.
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His Girl Friday
Broadly regarded as one of the greatest comedies of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’, this screwball classic stars Rosalind Russell as a New York investigative reporter and Cary Grant as her newspaper editor former husband, desperately battling to win his ex back on the eve of her wedding to a dull insurance salesman. Produced in 1940 under the direction of Howard Hawks, it’s notable that for much of the piece, Grant wears a beautiful glen plaid, wide-lapel double-breasted suit — a garment that, thanks to its ‘wasteful’ use of cloth, was in fact banned during the second world war.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
A remake of the 1964 Marlon Brando/David Niven film Bedtime Story, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels sees Steve Martin and Michael Caine portray competing con men, vying for the affections and funds of wealthy women on the French Riviera — so far, so rakish. Filmed primarily in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, an exclusive seaside enclave halfway between Nice and Monaco (renamed Beaumont-sur-Mer in the film), the movie is as stylish as it is hilarious. In particular, Caine’s white-suited, Corniche-driving roué is the very picture of sophistication, conducting his underhanded operations from a beautiful Cap d’Antibes villa, estimated to be worth €150 million today.
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Ocean's 11
Few in recent history have been as influential a force on men’s style as the Rat Pack, the core members of which — Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop — star in this comedic 1960 heist flick. Frank’s Danny Ocean and his pals sport razor-sharp suits from Los Angeles’ ‘tailor to the stars’ Sy Devore as they set out to rip off five Vegas casinos over the course of a single night. Devore’s on-screen work wasn’t limited to Ocean’s 11, however. He provided suits for dozens of films (including all of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin’s teamings) and outfitted a who’s-who of the era — Elvis, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, JFK, Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Nat King Cole — before his death in 1966.
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