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.


Film programs

Neues Film-Programm nr. 8981

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