Bumbling Detectives – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988) | David Zucker

December 6, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

The comedy writing team of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker brought this first of a trilogy, based on their short-lived 1982 TV show “Police Squad”, of zany screwball comedies to Hollywood in 1988, offering plenty of sight gags, plays on words, pop culture sendups, and downright silly slapstick. Leslie Nielsen returns to star […]

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) | Blake Edwards

November 29, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Ted Wass stars as New York City police sergeant Clifton Sleigh, who ends up getting selected by an Interpol computer that is choosing the second-best sleuth in the world to use to find the missing best sleuth, Inspector Clouseau. Except Sleigh isn’t the best, as Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) deliberately sabotaged the computer to […]

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) | Blake Edwards

November 22, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Trail of the Pink Panther is a film done nearly two years after the death of Pink Panther franchise star Peter Sellers, compiling the best clips and unused outtakes from prior films, along with new material to hang together a plot around the. That plot involves the theft of the infamous and priceless Pink Panther diamond […]