Intersplicing clips of all those old heroes, like Bogart, Ladd, Stanwyck, Milland, Lancaster, Laughton, Cagney, with comic clips of Steve Martin as a keen, but clumsy detective who gets all the good lines, creates both an extremely funny comedy and a whodunnit in the best possible taste.

Navin Johnson (Martin) is the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family. Feeling that his life lacks purpose Nathan ventures out into the world to make his fortune. Along the way he he falls in love with a lady motorcycle racer, is stalked by a deranged killer and becomes a millionaire. However, Navin's journey of discovery causes him to conclude that it's better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable. Side-splittingly funny and absolutely brilliant.

Steve Martin is an offbeat lawyer who runs into trouble when he has to share his body with the mind of a vindictive dead heiress. A totally brilliant comedy by the funniest white man around. Definitely among his best work...

Dr Hfuhruhurr, the world's most brilliant brain surgeon, falls in love with a brain in a jar and is tempted to switch this brain with that of his hateful, but beautiful, wife. Absolutely brilliant. Steve Martin, believe it or not,