The Naked Gun (1988)






Lieutenant Frank Drebin is a clumsy police detective of Police Squad, a division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Frank returns home to L.A from a vacation in Beirut, when his partner and best friend, Detective Nordberg is gunned down in a undercover operation. Frank's investigation into Nordberg's attempted murder leads Frank to become suspicious of well-respected businessman Vincent Ludwig and discovers Vincent Ludwig plans to brainwash a baseball player with mind control device, and assassinate Queen Elizabeth who is visiting L.A. on her American tour.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Naked Gun

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1989, A Survey of the Films of 1988
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 226-229 info

Articles on The Naked Gun

Classic Scene, The Naked Gun, in: Empire, nr. 200 (February), 2006 pp. 186

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Naked Gun

Simon Crook, The top 10 Bathroom Scenes, in: Empire, nr. 246 (December), 2009 pp. 192-193



Year: 1988
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0095705