The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad!

Story

David Zucker--of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker creative troika behind Airplane! and television's Police Squad!--directed this 1988 feature film based on the latter show. Leslie Nielsen returns to his old TV role of Lt. Frank Drebin, the deadpan idiot with a detective's badge. The reinvention of the failed series as a theatrical feature seems to have inspired everyone involved to make a pretty funny movie, and the jokes gather a momentum that lasts until the final act. Ricardo Montalban is a perfect foil as a villain whose aquarium is being invaded by Drebin during routine questioning, and George Kennedy is delightful in a self-parodying part as an earnest but obtuse lawman. There's a hilarious bit when Drebin--wearing a live police wire while going to the bathroom--can be overheard over the loudspeakers at a speech given by a flustered mayor (Nancy Marchand). Yes, that's O.J. Simpson as a detective who ends up on the wrong side of numerous Drebin blunders. --Tom Keogh

DVD Features

• Color
• Closed-captioned
• Widescreen
• Dolby

Cast

Leslie Nielsen	Frank Drebin
Priscilla Presley	Jane Spencer
Ricardo Montalban	Vincent Ludwig
George Kennedy	Ed Hocken
O.J. Simpson	Nordberg
Susan Beaubian	Mrs. Nordberg
Nancy Marchand	Mayor
Raye Birk	Pahpshmir
Jeannette Charles	Queen Elizabeth II
Ed Williams	Ted Olsen
Tiny Ron	Al
'Weird Al' Yankovic	'Weird Al'