Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a 1988 loose remake of the 1964 comedy Bedtime Story, was Frank Oz's second non-Henson directorial project, after Little Shop of Horrors, and the first not to involve puppetry.

The film starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin as competing con artists at the French Riviera, out to score a soap heiress (Glenne Headley). Oz had worked with Martin as a performer on The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie and directed him in Little Shop. Miles Goodman scored, and Louis Zorich, whom Oz had previously directed in The Muppets Take Manhattan, has a small role as a Greek millionaire.

Reviews
"Martin's sole redemption in this dark period was last year's cameo in the funky film version of Little Shop of Horrors. As a sadistic biker/dentist on a heavy Elvis trip, Martin was all crotch thrusts and glib swirls. He hurled his body across the screen with exhilerated abandon, clearly delighted that director Frank Oz, the man behind the Muppets (he invented Miss Piggy), had given him so much leeway to go berserk. Now Martin and Oz are reunited in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.... Oz has urged from Martin a performance that makes good on the Little Shop teaser; physically deft and verbally sharp, Martin does his best work since All of Me''." - Katherine Dieckman, The Village Voice, December 20, 1988.