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Naked Gun
1988
In this zany comedy, L.A. cop Lt. Frank Drebin nearly destroys the world several times over (while trying to save it) as he uncovers an insidious plot to assassinate the Queen of England during an L.A. Dodgers game. Read more
| Starring | Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban |
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| Director | David Zucker |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Naked Gun
In this zany comedy, L.A. cop Lt. Frank Drebin nearly destroys the world several times over (while trying to save it) as he uncovers an insidious plot to assassinate the Queen of England during an L.A. Dodgers game.
| Starring | Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, O.J. Simpson, 'Weird Al' Yankovic |
|---|---|
| Director | David Zucker |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 21 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Cops & Robbers, 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 09 Apr 2001 Production year: 1988 |
| Format | DVD |
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The team behind Airplane! first turned their wicked talents on to the police force with the short-lived cult TV series Police Squad!, but it was this hilarious feature-length spoof that introduced Leslie Nielsen's inspired Frank Drebin to a worldwide audience. Nielsen remains wonderfully stone-faced as the inept lieutenant, who wreaks havoc in Los Angeles while investigating the shooting of a colleague around the time of a visit by the Queen. The supporting players — George Kennedy as his captain, Priscilla Presley as the equally clumsy love interest and OJ Simpson as the wounded colleague — are also delightfully deadpan, and the determinedly juvenile gags never stop flowing.
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Fans of the Airplane team (and especially of their short-lived TV series Police Squad, by which this gloriously tacky... read more on Time Out
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Sight-gags and deadpan humour at its finest
A movie length version of the short-lived US TV series 'Police Squad', this is the 'Airplane' team's take on the cop thriller genre.
Sight-gags all over the place rewards repeat viewing. Leslie Neilson is superb as the jaw-droppingly dim and insensitive Frank Drebbin. Ricardo Montalban is excellent as well. Even OJ Simpson is funny (!).
The short length means that it's just one joke after another (and some simultaneously!). Outstanding. -
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Sight-gags and deadpan humour at its finest
A movie length version of the short-lived US TV series 'Police Squad', this is the 'Airplane' team's take on the cop thriller genre.
Sight-gags all over the place rewards repeat viewing. Leslie Neilson is superb as the jaw-droppingly dim and insensitive Frank Drebbin. Ricardo Montalban is excellent as well. Even OJ Simpson is funny (!).
The short length means that it's just one joke after another (and some simultaneously!). Outstanding. -
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