The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Director: David Zucker
Genre: Parody, Comedy, Screwball comedy, Action, Crime Fiction, Romance Film
Year: 1988
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O. J. Simpson, Nancy Marchand, Ricardo Montalbán, Ed Williams, Raye Birk, Susan Beaubian, Joe Grifasi, Tiny Ron Taylor, Winifred Freedman
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 American comedy film that is the first in a The Naked Gun series of films starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, and O. J. Simpson. The three films (the other two being The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult) chronicle the adventures of Nielsen's character, the bumbling police Lieutenant Frank Drebin.
The film series is based on the character created by Nielsen in the television series Police Squad!. The core creative team behind Police Squad! and the movie series includes the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker as well as Pat Proft in varying combinations.
The films feature fast-paced slapstick comedy, including a lot of visual and verbal puns and gags.
The film begins in Beirut, Lebanon, where a gang of anti-American leaders including Ayatollah Khomeini, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, Fidel Castro, and Idi Amin meet to plan the ultimate terrorist act against the United States. The man who is later shown to be Pahpshmir is also present. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) has been posing undercover as a waiter; he beats up all the
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