An outrageous black comedy about two very different hit-men for the Mafia.

Jack Nicholson's street-tough assassin for the Prizzi family is not the brightest of men.

When his girlfriend (Anjelica Huston deservedly winning an Oscar) tells him about Art Deco, he responds 'Art who?'

Kathleen Turner's svelte blonde hired killer, on the other hand, is as different as chalk from cheese.

But the mixture is pure dynamite. The air fairly crackles with sexual tension whenever Turner and Nicholson spar verbally, but the best scenes were claimed by Huston, daughter of the film's director, John Huston.

Film fans will relish an appearance by a B-movie actor of old, Lawrence Tierney (who took the title role in Dillinger in 1945), as a bald-headed (and predictably tough) cop on the take.

The production values are top-drawer, led by a script that credits its audience with intelligence. A big popular hit.