Remember Dudley Moore?

Last night I watched Unfaithfully Yours, a 1984 comedy with Dudley Moore and Nastassja Kinski.

Moore becomes convinced that his wife (Kinski) is cheating on him; and comes up with an absurd Rube-Goldberg plot to murder her and pin the blame on her lover. There are Halloween masks, multiple tape recorders, drugged drinks, and walks along high building precipices in the middle of the night.

The first part of the movie sets up the situation; the second is Moore's daydream scenario of the murder; the third is what actually happens. Of course, things don't work out perfectly.

I love this movie. It's a comedic response to movies like The Italian Job or Ocean's Latest Number, in which the most overelaborate plans seem to go off perfectly.

(Well, all right. Maybe "response" isn't the right word, since it preceded those movies by decades; but the point is still there.)