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duel of martial arts, after which Tony and Gloria drive to the opera house, having some unusual problems along the way such as crashing into an
Italian restaurant and commandeering an airport limousine carrying a pair of Japanese tourists. After making it backstage, Gloria is grabbed by Jackson, who kills one of several security guards who have joined the pursuit. An enraged Gloria attempts to attack Jackson, who simply shoves her to the floor. This gives Tony the room he needs to shoot the albino, thus thwarting the plan to kill the pope. When the albino falls from the rafters, he gets tangled in ropes and activates a lever that lowers a stage-length display of the ship
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the police. When the attacker tries to stop her, he is killed by a knife thrown by Whitey through the kitchen window, and Gloria faints in shock. When she awakens, all traces of what has happened have disappeared, and she cannot convince Tony, his partner
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bleeds into her popcorn and warns her to "beware of the dwarf" before he dies. When his body mysteriously disappears while Gloria seeks help from the theater manager, she is unable to convince anyone of what has transpired. At home, she tells her elderly neighbor and landlord Mr. Hennessey of the events.
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upcoming visit to San
Francisco, and has murdered his twin in order to impersonate him. The following day, Rupert kidnaps Fergie and uses him to lure Gloria into a trap. She manages to hide in a massage parlor, where she encounters Stanley yet again, but Whitey and Stiltskin then find and abduct her.
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Darrow then details her "contingency plan" to eliminate the pope: if the pope is not dead at the end of act I, if he leaves his seat at any time, or if the police arrive, Whitey
Jackson will open fire from one of the auditorium's two organ bays. Mr. Hennessy knocks out Charlie and defeats Delia in a
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that evening, and before they part ways, he asks her to take his pack of cigarettes to help him curb his smoking. Unknown to her, Scotty has secreted a roll of undeveloped film in the cigarette pack. That evening, a seriously wounded Scotty meets Gloria in the theater and asks her about the film. He
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album. Shocked by his misunderstanding, Gloria flees and returns to her apartment, where she is attacked by a man with a scar who demands the cigarette pack Scotty had given her. When he attempts to strangle her with a scarf, Gloria stabs him in the stomach with a pair of knitting needles and calls
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Gloria Mundy sees
Lieutenant Tony Carlson, a young police officer, at the bar, who ruins the moment by stumbling and spilling all the drinks. Gloria sits with a friend and is encouraged to open herself to new experiences. Driving home, Gloria picks up an attractive man named Bob "Scotty" Scott when
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given to her by her friend and fellow library employee, Stella. Upon further investigation, Tony discovers that Scotty, an undercover SFPD inspector who had received a tip that a major assassination would take place in the city on a certain night, was investigating contract killer Rupert
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When Tony and Fergie discover that the limousine is registered to the archdiocese of San
Francisco, they visit the office of Archbishop Thorncrest, unaware that their interviewee is actually the archbishop's twin brother Charlie, who is involved in a plot to assassinate Pope Pius XIII during his
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did a few months ago, it starts out promising genuine wit and originality only to fall back on more familiar tactics after a half-hour or so. If either film had a less winning opening, perhaps it wouldn't leave a vague aftertaste of disappointment. Colin
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At Gloria's request, Stella has researched an organization known as the Tax the
Churches League, and discovered that the league is a radical fringe group founded by Delia Darrow and her husband. For the Darrows, organized religion is a corrupt, greedy sham involving powerful billion-dollar
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corporations. Stella gives the results of her findings to Tony, who returns to the archbishop's residence with Mr. Hennessy. Sneaking into the wine cellar, Tony discovers the imprisoned Fergie, who informs him that the Darrow hired
Stiltskin to assassinate the Pope during a performance of
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never begins to make sense as a mystery story, and it's not incidentally amusing or stylish. At best, the film can be accepted as a harmless assortment of fake-outs and distractions, alternating in tone from innocuous to vicious, from disarming to offensive."
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stated "Unsatisfactory as a whole, the film is hilarious and tense in bits" and noted "while writer/director Higgins uses almost every stock thriller device...he approaches this semi-parody with more zest and originality than is common."
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that evening. Tony is attacked by Rupert and kills him in self-defense by toppling shelves of wine upon him, but the fake archbishop's assistant Gerda Caswell, who is really Delia Darrow, holds him and Gloria at gunpoint.
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returns home, walks into a room and puts on a record. He opens his cupboard and sees the reflection of a similar looking man staring back at him. He turns around quickly and is killed by a knife thrown into his chest.
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on her. She runs off and hides in a singles bar where she asks a stranger, Stanley Tibbets, to take her home, but Stanley, an aspiring British womanizer who assumes she wants to have sex, mixes a cocktail laced with
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called it "an excellent film", adding "Writer Colin Higgins makes a good directorial bow. Goldie Hawn is superb in a strong return to pictures, and Chevy Chase, also above title, works well as a screen partner."
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does offer a kind of duplex pleasure—as a celebration of the movies the way they used to make them, sleek, funny, exciting but unworrying, and in its own terms as a vividly adventurous romantic comedy."
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567:. When Gloria is attacked in her home by a man attempting to strangle her with a scarf and she defends herself with a household object, both are references to
854:, and this time he's much more successful ...Still, Mr. Higgins isn't a facile enough juggler to keep the film's diverse elements from colliding at times."
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appearance, Roger Ebert called the film "a very good picture."
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network in early 1981, and was cancelled after six episodes.
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and dances while removing nearly all his clothing to a
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in conjunction with the release of the film in 1978.
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Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
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178:Running time
155:Release date
105:Dudley Moore
1738:"Foul Play"
1712:15 November
1707:Timeout.com
1703:"Foul Play"
1560:15 November
1530:15 November
1480:14 November
1461:14 November
1408:14 November
1364:14 November
1338:14 November
1277:15 November
1211:"Foul Play"
1170:15 November
1079:Goldie Hawn
1064:Chevy Chase
1002:Charles Fox
970:Nominee(s)
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844:House Calls
775:Carole King
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521:Frances Bay
495:as Scarface
481:Billy Barty
427:Chevy Chase
421:Goldie Hawn
365:Spanish Fly
325:A Catholic
269:Billy Barty
245:Chevy Chase
241:Goldie Hawn
206:$ 5 million
182:116 minutes
138:Charles Fox
90:Chevy Chase
85:Goldie Hawn
57:Produced by
39:Directed by
2374:1978 films
2368:Categories
2255:On Our Own
2248:(1993–94)
2245:Getting By
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2228:(1990–91)
2218:(1990–91)
2208:(1989–98)
2198:(1987–95)
2195:Full House
2188:(1986–93)
2178:(1986–91)
2148:(1980–82)
2058:(1974–76)
2055:Petrocelli
2045:Happy Days
1836:August 15,
1782:Retrieved
1774:Metacritic
1655:2020-02-09
1148:References
1141:Nominated
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1111:Nominated
1098:Nominated
1083:Nominated
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822:Jove Books
787:The Mikado
714:, and the
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668:Noe Valley
635:Tim Conway
528:Production
395:The Mikado
327:archbishop
211:Box office
166:1978-07-14
49:Written by
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2305:The Heist
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2168:(1982–83)
2155:Foul Play
2118:(1979–80)
2105:Makin' It
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2048:(1974–84)
2036:TV series
1969:Foul Play
1915:Foul Play
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1882:Foul Play
1577:Foul Play
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926:Channel 4
910:Foul Play
896:Foul Play
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736:Sausalito
712:Japantown
607:Hal Ashby
593:MacGuffin
576:Notorious
565:Foul Play
533:Foul Play
493:Don Calfa
477:as Stella
343:librarian
337:, recent
305:starring
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124:Edited by
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1443:43472177
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548:Saboteur
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286:(Hawn),
230:neo-noir
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187:Country
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1439:JSTOR
1354:(PDF)
981:1978
976:Ref.
961:Year
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360:ether
1887:IMDb
1865:2021
1857:HFPA
1838:2021
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1714:2021
1581:ISBN
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