A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda, directed by Charles Crichton from a story he developed with John Cleese, was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in July 1988. A London jewel robbery falls apart when the crew turn on each other, and Jamie Lee Curtis's Wanda Gershwitz seduces Cleese's barrister Archie Leach to find where the loot is hidden, with Kevin Kline winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as the weapons-grade idiot Otto and Michael Palin as the stammering animal-lover Ken. (IMDb)

Watches

Cartier Panthere de Cartier

Worn by Jamie Lee Curtis as Wanda Gershwitz. Montres de Luxe identifies Wanda's watch as a gold Cartier Panthere. (Montres de Luxe) The dating works: Cartier launched the Panthere in 1983, so in 1988 it was a current and conspicuously fashionable object rather than a heritage piece, and its flat articulated bracelet was designed to drape like a gold chain, which puts it closer to jewellery than to horology. That is precisely the right register for a character whose entire method is to look like money in order to get at it. No size, metal variant, or reference is resolved by the source or by the transfer, so the row links the line.

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