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Dragnet
1987
A seemingly squeaky-clean TV reverend and a porno magazine king are suspected of operating a crime-ridden cult. Joe Friday's nephew and his 'hip' partner are given the task of proving these allegations with 'just the facts'. Read more
| Starring | Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Dabney Coleman |
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| Director | Tom Mankiewicz |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Dragnet
A seemingly squeaky-clean TV reverend and a porno magazine king are suspected of operating a crime-ridden cult. Joe Friday's nephew and his 'hip' partner are given the task of proving these allegations with 'just the facts'.
| Starring | Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Ashley, Alexandra Paul, Christopher Plummer |
|---|---|
| Director | Tom Mankiewicz |
| Studio | 4 FRONT VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 42 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Cops & Robbers, 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, English, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 24 Nov 2004 Production year: 1987 |
| Format | DVD |
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It's a trawl through the comic depths for this parody of Jack Webb's 1950s TV series, in which stony-faced cops took themselves so seriously it was already a hoot without this interference. Dan Aykroyd is the deadpan and oh-so-decent nephew of Webb's Sergeant Joe Friday (who even shares his uncle's rank and name), lumbered with an amorally dishevelled partner in Tom Hanks, as he battles porn king Dabney Coleman and satanist Christopher Plummer. A virgin sacrifice is the least of it, and, as far as laughs are concerned, the most of it, despite the talents of Aykroyd and Hanks and the valiant efforts of director Tom Mankiewicz, who made his name as a scriptwriter on three Bond movies in the early 1970s.
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The contemporary perspective is even less kind to '50s TV's sententious Sergeant Joe Friday than to Elliot Ness.... read more on Time Out
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
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Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and Alan Zweibel) is a gentle spoof of the legendary '50s television police drama -- pitting '50s conservatism smack up against the attitudes of the '80s. Basically, the film is another 48 Hours or Beverly Hills Cop clone. Aykroyd stars as Joe Friday, the nephew of the original Friday. But with his brown suit, fedora, and lockjaw, he could just as well be the incarnation of Jack Webb. He is involuntarily assigned a smart alecky, street-wise partner, Pep Streebeck (Tom Hanks), and they are charged to investigate a series of religious cult murders in L.A. The two cops follow the trail to a phony televangelist, the Reverend Jonathan Whirley (Christopher Plummer). From there, they are only at step away from uncovering an Orange County-based religious cult calling itself P.A.G.A.N. (People Against Goodness and Normalcy). After sneaking into a secret ceremony, Friday falls in love with the sacrificial victim Connie Swail (Alexandra Paul). So much so that even after his superior Captain Gannon (Harry Morgan, reprising his role from the '60s revival of the Dragnet program) orders him off the case, Friday continues on, with the requisite car chases and crashes that usually climax any '80s cop movie or comedy.
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disc didnt work
disc didnt work for me unfortunatley! :(
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