Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
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| Directed by | Ted Kotcheff |
| Produced by | William Aldrich |
| Written by | Peter Stone |
| Starring | George Segal Jacqueline Bisset Robert Morley Jean-Pierre Cassel Philippe Noiret |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Cinematography | John Alcott |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | 1978 |
| Running time | 112 minutes |
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? is a 1978 comedy film starring George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Morley. It was based on a novel of the same title. Each chef is killed in the manner of his nost famous dish (The lobster chef, for example, is boiled) and in the book the recipe for each dish is given. The film was co-produced by the U.S.A., Italy, France and West Germany.
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[edit] Synopsis
The villain is a food critic sentenced by his doctor to a strict diet. The critic decides to murder the chefs responsible for the dishes making up his favorite meal. The investigator realizes his wife is the last on the list, and her signature dish is.....Bombe.
[edit] Longer synopsis
Bisset plays a celebrated pastry chef invited to London to assist in preparing a State dinner for the Queen organized by her sometime benefactor, Max (Morley). Segal is her former husband, "Robby" ("the taco king") a fast food entepreneur serving the "everyman" consumer while ex-wife Bisset caters to the affluent. Morley is the "immensely fat" grand gormand publisher of a gormet magazine and patron of several famous European chefs, each renowned for a signature dish. As Bisset arrives in London he's gloating over his last issue featuring "the world's most fabulous meal" which highlights the culinary masterpieces of his favorite chefs. Meanwhile, Morley's health is failing from an addiction to those chefs and their speecialties. Suddenly each chef begins to be mysteriously murdered, each killed in the manner of his most famous dish (e.g., the lobster chef is drowned in a tank of lobsters). In the book the recipe for each dish is given.
Despite some sub-plot clues to keep viewers guessing, the actual villain is Morley's dedicated "jill-of-all-trades," who murders the chefs in a vain attempt to keep Morley on his severe diet by removing the focus of his addition. Eventually Bisset The investigator realizes his wife is the last on the list, and her signature dish is a desert "Le' Bombe Richelieu."
Tagline: The mystery-comedy that tastes as good as it looks.
[edit] Awards
Robert Morley won Best Supporting Actor at the 1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (1978) and at the National Society of Film Critics Awards (1979). He was also nominated for Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role along with Jacqueline Bisset for Best Motion Picture Actress (1979).
[edit] Trivia
- Morley's "Max," the characterizations of the various chefs, and the great locations make this a film definitely worth watching.
[edit] External links
- Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? at the Internet Movie Database
- Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? at All Movie Guide
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