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The Naked Gun

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• Comedy
• Crime/detective

• 1988
• David Zucker
• 81 mins
• 15

Summary

Comedy from the makers of Airplane! starring Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley. Criminals beware - Lieutenant Frank Drebin is back! International terrorism, the drug cartels, the Queen and Idi Amin are all involved in Drebin's latest case. The only problem is that Frank's not entirely sure what the case is.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

John Ferguson

The team behind Airplane! first turned their wicked talents onto 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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7.6/10

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Cast

rolenameLieutenant Frank DrebinLeslie NielsenJane SpencerPriscilla PresleyVincent LudwigRicardo MontalbanCaptain Ed HockenGeorge KennedyNordbergO J SimpsonMayorNancy MarchandPahpshmirRaye BirkQueen Elizabeth IIJeannette CharlesMrs NordbergSusan BeaubianTed OlsenEd WilliamsWeird Al"Weird Al" YankovicIdi AminPrince HughesGorbachevDavid Lloyd AustinDriving instructorJohn HousemanAngel managerLawrence Tierney

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rolenameDirectorDavid Zucker

Details

Released on

1989-02-10

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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