The Naked Face

R

1985

1h 43m

Mystery & Thriller

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A Chicago psychiatrist (Roger Moore) hires a private eye (Art Carney) after being linked by a detective (Rod Steiger) to mobsters and murder.

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craig p

I enjoyed this movie, filmed in Chicago, if your a native I think you might like this picture more, Art Carney's scene was particularly good, this movie doesn't have the highest review ratings, but it's worth a visit.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/07/24

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Jelisije J

How the hell do you take a simple plot with SIR Roger Moore and come out with a terrible cringe worthy atrocious film.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/28/23

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A Sidney Sheldon novel written fourteen years before this was filmed, this also gave Roger Moore the opportunity to get ahead of typecasting, seeing as how 1985's A View to a Kill would be his last time as James Bond. Instead of a suave British spy or thief, he played a Chicago psychoanalyst named Dr. Judd Stevens. One of his patients is murdered — while wearing the doctor's overcoat no less — which brings Lieutenant McGreavy (Rod Steiger) and Detective Angeli (Elliott Gould) on the case. There's already some bad blood, as McGreavy blames Stevens and his past testimony for a cop killer being institutionalized rather than being sent to prison. But after Stevens' secretary is killed and McGreavy gets so intense he gets thrown off the force, well, we have a movie. Written and directed by Bryan Forbes (The Stepford Wives), this film places Moore into the middle of a murder mystery which is very outside his usual unrumpled all things handled way of acting. He even tries to get help from an old detective, Morgens (Art Carney), who saves him from a car bomb. In fact, the movie ends with a series of goons nearly beating him to death. He's saved because the mob boss's wife that he's been helping with therapy — Ann Blake (Anne Archer) — called the police herself. And notihng she ever told Stevens had anything to do with the family business. All that death — and more coming soon — for nothing. This movie was made because Cannon saw that they'd get some cachet by working with Moore — and his Bond fame was still box office — so he was able to get this movie made and hire two of his friends, Forbes and actor David Hedison. Despite the fact that it was running on schedule and under budget, Cannon slashed several weeks from filming and took away a hefty chunk of the budget, which may have gone toward paying back some recent losses at the box office. Golan and Globus also were enraged that Forbes gave Moore a week off to visit his family after the death of his mother.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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hardy c

Half a star is half a star too many for this cosmic stinker, but RT won't let me register a zero or the more deserved negative score. There are so many bad things about this movie I can scarcely begin to list them. Rod Steiger's constant screaming is a good place to start, though, followed by the complete inanity of the plot, Elliott Gould's deadpan apathy, Roger Moore's zoned out I-wish-I-was-back-doing-Bond-again performance and Art Carney's utterly gratuitous appearance and mercifully quick disappearance. There is an obvious misspelling of the title. "Naked Farce" is what it is.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Roger Moore is impressive in this late career thriller sand-witched between his last two Bond films Octopussy and A View To A Kill. He plays a psychiatrist who is treated with suspicion after one of his patients is murdered. Not a movie without cliches but it is Moore's charged exchanges with Rod Steiger's detective that impress and add some dramatic weight to proceedings.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Roger Moore is impressive in this late career thriller sandwhiched between his last two Bond films Octopussy and A View To A Kill. He plays a psychiatrist who is treated with suspicion after one of his patients is murdered. Not a movie without cliches but it is Moore's charged exchanges with Rod Steiger's detective that impress and add some dramatic weight to preceedings.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Bryan Forbes

Director

Roger Moore

Dr. Judd Stevens

Rod Steiger

Lieutenant McGreary

Art Carney

Morgens

Elliott Gould

Angeli

Anne Archer

Ann Blake

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Richard Christiansen

Chicago Tribune

The film has plenty of problems, including harsh lighting and murky photography, but its principal fault is that it has a perfectly dreadful story and absolutely silly dialogue, taken from a first novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Rated: 1.5/4

Apr 13, 2021

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

...there's enough red herrings and plot-twists to divert the mind from Moore's awful raincoats, smoking jackets and elbow patches...

Rated: 3/5

Dec 16, 2021

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Synopsis

A Chicago psychiatrist (Roger Moore) hires a private eye (Art Carney) after being linked by a detective (Rod Steiger) to mobsters and murder.

Director: Bryan Forbes
Screenwriter: Bryan Forbes
Production Co: Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group, Northbrook Films
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 28, 2017
Runtime: 1h 43m

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