The naked gun part 1

Some of the jokes are incredibly stupid. Most of them are dumber than dumb. Yet this is not simply a string of one-liners. There is a certain manic logic to the progression of the film, as the plot leads us from Yasser Arafat to Reggie Jackson , with a pause while Queen Elizabeth II passes a hot dog to the person sitting on the other side of her at Dodger Stadium. The movie stars Leslie Nielsen , star it says in the press information of a thousand TV shows, as Lt.

See photos of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Leonardo DiCaprio before they hit the big-time, and revisit their earliest onscreen roles. See the full gallery. A rerun of many of the gags from the television series Police Squad! An Airplane! Visual gags come thick and fast, and it's impossible to catch them all with one viewing. The plot: Queen Elizabeth II of England is coming to town, and Vincent Ludwig has plans to assassinate her using a brainwashed baseball player.

The film stars Leslie Nielsen as the bumbling police lieutenant Frank Drebin. Simpson also star in supporting roles. 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!

It was based on their short-lived ABC television series Police. The first two films were directed by David Zucker, and the third film was directed by Peter Segal. The main suspect is Vincent Ludwig, a man hired by Pahpshmir, a recurring villain who has a way of turning anyone into an unknowing assassin at the press of a remote control; it appears that the victims are responding to a post-hypnotic suggestion, but the film makes no effort to clarify the point. As with previous ZAZ spoof comedies, the ostensible "plot" was culled most from another - more serious - movie.