The Roly Poly Man

The Roly Poly Man

Movie

  • Duration: 1h 30min
  • Award(s): Audience 1995 (Won)
    AFI 1994 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Benefit List, Enola Holmes
  • Story:
    Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
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STORY

Story
Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue

AWARDS

Won
Audience Award

1995 | Bill

Nominations
AFI Award

Best Screenplay Original | 1994

Best Film Award

1994 | Bill

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The name "The Roly Poly Man" comes from the classic 1968 song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan. In the song, the Roly Poly Man is a close associate of the Hurdy Gurdy Man.

Private investigator Dirk Trent (Paul Chubb)'s fee per day plus any expenses is never disclosed.

The film was a spoof of the Old Hollywood film noir detective and private eye movies in the Philip Marlowe and Raymond Chandler tradition but had a dual-genre parodying as it also sent-up schlock horror movies and combined the two genres in the picture.

The term that shamus gumshoe Dirk Trent (Paul Chubb) used to describe himself as was a "no frills" private detective.

The name of the six-foot-four big cuddly children's character was "Woozy Bear".

Popular Dialogues

"Dirk: Some people collect stamps. Some play a bit of golf. For me, it was butt-sculpture. Fag-modelling. Turning dirty old stogies into works of art. Started off with a small camel gumbie, then moved on. Trojan horse. Steam train. One day I plan to do the Crash of the Hindenberg. It's a lot like fishing - you get stinky fingers doing that, too."

"Dirk: I had a 'who' and a 'how' but I didn't have a 'why'. Maybe I didn't even have a 'who'. I couldn't say for certain how that who did what he did how he did, and why he did what he did how he did - shit - I didn't have a 'what' either! But I had a 'where'! Where he did what he did how he did. But I still couldn't prove HOW he could do what he did, or even if he COULD do what he diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-do- It'd been a long day."