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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (also known as simply The Naked Gun) is a 1988 American crime comedy film directed by David Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Leslie Nielsen as the bumbling police lieutenant Frank Drebin. Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalbán, George Kennedy, and O. J. Simpson also star in supporting roles.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Zucker
Written by	Jerry Zucker Jim Abrahams David Zucker Pat Proft
Based on	Police Squad! by David Zucker Jim Abrahams Jerry Zucker
Produced by	Robert K. Weiss
Starring	Leslie Nielsen
Cinematography	Robert M. Stevens
Edited by	Michael Jablow
Music by	Ira Newborn
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 2, 1988 (1988-12-02)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12 million[citation needed]
Box office	$152.4 million

The film features fast-paced slapstick comedy, including many visual and verbal puns and gags. The film is based on the character portrayed by Nielsen in the television series Police Squad!, and is also a continuation of the latter.[1] The core creative team behind Police Squad! and the film series includes the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker as well as Pat Proft in varying combinations.[2]

Released on December 2, 1988, The Naked Gun was a critical and commercial success, which led to two sequels: The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994).

Plot

Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin, taking a vacation in Beirut, disrupts a conference of America's greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev[3]) who are trying to conceive a terrorist plan to humiliate the U.S. In Los Angeles, Officer Nordberg attempts to bust a heroin drug operation organized by businessman Vincent Ludwig, and is shot by Ludwig's henchmen. After returning to L.A. and being briefed on the case, Drebin visits Nordberg in the hospital. Nordberg provides cryptic clues, including a picture of Ludwig's ship on which the deal had been organized. Frank also learns that Nordberg's jacket tested positive for heroin.

Police Squad is put in charge of security for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Los Angeles, and Captain Ed Hocken tells Frank that he has 24 hours to clear Nordberg before word gets out and detracts from the Queen's visit.

After a visit from Frank, Ludwig learns that Nordberg is still alive. Ludwig has his assistant, Jane Spencer, help Frank in his investigation, and the two fall in love. However, Jane is unaware of her employer's illegal activities. Meanwhile, Ludwig meets with Pahpshmir, a participant of the Beirut meeting, to discuss an assassination plot against the queen. Ludwig agrees to do it for $20 million and explains that he will use a beeper that can create an assassin using post-hypnotic suggestion. Ludwig attempts to have Nordberg killed at the hospital by hypnotizing a doctor. Frank successfully protects Nordberg, but also causes the assassin to crash a car into a gasoline truck, then a ballistic missile, and finally a fireworks factory. Because of this, Frank fails to uncover the motive behind the attempted murder.

Frank then breaks into Ludwig's office and searches for evidence. He finds a note from Pahpshmir addressed to Ludwig which confirms his suspicions, but inadvertently starts a fire that destroys the note and the office. Frank later confronts Ludwig with his allegations at a reception for the Queen's arrival. He misinterprets Ludwig's presentation of a musket to the Queen as an attack and tries to protect her, but only causes more of a problem and is fired from Police Squad. Afterward, Jane finds out the plan will be executed at a baseball game at Anaheim Stadium and that one of the players will perform the act.

The Police Squad arrives at the stadium. In order to search the players, Frank knocks the home plate umpire out and takes his place, frisking the players for weapons while they are at bat. Ludwig eventually activates his "sleeper", Reggie Jackson. Jane alerts Frank, who chases after Jackson and tackles him, but Jackson manages to get away when Frank's action starts a bench-clearing brawl. Ludwig holds Jane at gunpoint and begins to leave the stadium while Jackson takes aim at the Queen. Frank tries to incapacitate Jackson with a tranquilizer dart, but misses and hits a large woman on the upper deck. She falls over the railing and lands on Jackson, incapacitating him and saving the Queen's life.

Frank follows Ludwig to the top of the stadium and shoots Ludwig with another dart, causing him to fall over the side of the stadium and be struck by a passing bus, run over by a steamroller, and trampled by the USC marching band. Some of the band members inadvertently step on Ludwig's beeper, triggering Jane to attempt to kill Frank. He breaks Jane's hypnotized state by openly professing his feelings for her and giving her an engagement ring. Frank and Jane meet Mayor Barkley, who reinstates Frank back to Police Squad, and a recovered Nordberg congratulates him. Unfortunately, Frank pushes Nordberg's wheelchair down the stadium stairs by accident and launches him onto the field.

Cast

Major League Baseball (MLB) player Jay Johnstone has a cameo role as do umpires Joe West, Doug Harvey, Hank Robinson, Ken Kaiser and Ron Luciano. Professional announcers Curt Gowdy, Jim Palmer, Tim McCarver, Mel Allen, Dick Enberg, and Dick Vitale appear as play-by-play commentators. Dr. Joyce Brothers also appears in a cameo role as herself. John Houseman appears (uncredited) as a driving teacher.[4]

Production

The film was shot at various locations in and around Los Angeles, California.[5]

Principal photography was from February 22 to May 6, 1988.[6][7]

The baseball matchup between the California Angels and Seattle Mariners was not originally planned. Being Wisconsin natives, the Zuckers and Abrahams made a request to MLB to allow them to use the Milwaukee Brewers as one of the teams, but was recommended the Mariners instead. Minnesota native Proft's attempt to make that team the Twins was rejected by the ballclub. The Mariners' opponent was supposed to have been the Los Angeles Dodgers who, despite its willingness to allow Dodger Stadium to be used for filming, refused to be mentioned in the film because of its objection to the bench-clearing brawl scene. Needing a home team based in Greater Los Angeles which was the film's setting, the writers successfully settled for the Angels.[8]

Ricardo Montalbán was chosen by the producers to play the villain after being included on a list of names assembled by the people in charge of casting the film.[9] The Zucker brothers had seen his performance in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.[10]

Reception

Critical response

Upon its initial release, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! received critical acclaim, and has since been regarded as one of the greatest comedy films of all time.[11][12] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 86%, based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Naked Gun is chock full of gags that are goofy, unapologetically crass, and ultimately hilarious."[13] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 76 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[14] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[15]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars (of four), and said: "The movie is as funny, let it be said, as any comedy released this year ... You laugh, and then you laugh at yourself for laughing."[16]

It was voted the 14th best comedy of all time in a Channel 4 poll.[17] The film was selected by The New York Times as one of The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.[18] It was named the 7th Funniest Comedy Ever on a poll by Empire.[12]

Box office

The film was released on December 2, 1988, and in its opening weekend, finished in first place at the box office in the United States and Canada, grossing $9.3 million.[19] In its second weekend, it grossed $6.1 million, falling to second place behind the newly released Twins ($11.2 million).

The film went on to gross $78.8 million at the United States and Canada box office[20] and $73.7 million overseas[21] for a worldwide total of $152.4 million.

See also

• Telefon (film)

References

External links

• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at IMDb
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at the TCM Movie Database
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at AllMovie
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! at Metacritic

На других языках

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[de] Die nackte Kanone

Die nackte Kanone ist eine amerikanische Slapstick-Komödie aus dem Jahr 1988 und der erste von drei Teilen der Filmreihe des Regisseurs David Zucker.[2] Das Drehbuch schrieb er zusammen mit seinem Bruder Jerry Zucker und seinem Kollegen Jim Abrahams. Die drei sind auch als ZAZ bekannt.

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- [en] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

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[es] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (en España: Agárralo como puedas; en Hispanoamérica: ¿Dónde está el policía? o ¿Y dónde está el policía?, en Argentina: La pistola desnuda), es una película de comedia protagonizada por Leslie Nielsen y estrenada en 1988.

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[ru] Голый пистолет

«Голый пистолет: из архивов Полицейского отряда!» (англ. The Naked Gun: from the Files of Police Squad!) — американская комедия в жанре пародии, выпущенная режиссёром Дэвидом Цукером в 1988 году. В главной роли — Лесли Нильсен. «Голый пистолет» открывает трилогию кинокартин о работе сотрудника «летучего отряда полиции», пародирующую «полицейские» сериалы. В нём содержатся комические аллюзии на эпизоды американского телесериала «Коломбо», цикла о Джеймсе Бонде, пенталогии о «Грязном Гарри» (включая одноимённую картину) и ряда других известных фильмов. Создан на основе телевизионного сериала «Полицейский отряд!».

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