The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

Timing: 1:26 (86 min)

7.273/10
4438

7.367/10
101144

7.6/10
221000

All about film

Video 2

Photo 101

Actors and characters

Release date

1988-12-02

Country

United States

Production

Paramount

Genre

Comedy, Crime

Budget

$12 000 000

Revenue

$152 356 177

Website

Director

David Zucker

Actors

Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Susan Beaubian, Nancy Marchand, Raye Birk, Jeannette Charles, Ed Williams
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams

Producer

Robert K. Weiss, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Operator

Robert M. Stevens

Composer

Ira Newborn

Artist

Audition

Fern Champion, Pamela Basker

Editing

Michael Jablow
All team (73)

• When Jane is cleaning out Frank's refrigerator, she finds a package of Chinese food. The package’s manufacturing date is 1982. This is the year the series “Police Squad!” premiered in the US, which the film is based on.
• Despite the film being based on the series, only Leslie Nielsen and Ed Williams (playing the forensic scientist Ted) remained from the original cast, and Ted is not shown teaching children, as he was in the series.
• Director David Zucker mentions in the film's commentary that the studio insisted on attracting some Oscar laureate. This was George Kennedy, who actively offered his help, as he regretted not being in the producers' 1980 film “Airplane!”.
• The “breasts” that remind Frank of his ex-wife are the concrete structures of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California.
• Drebin accidentally destroys the painting "The Blue Boy"—a portrait by English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). The original has been housed in the Huntington Museum in California since 1929.
• The terrorist organization that Frank defeats at the beginning of the film references "SPECTRE," the criminal organization from the James Bond series.