Foul Play

FOUL PLAY (15)

D: Colin Higgins

Paramount (Thomas L. Miller & Edward K. Milkis)

USA 🇺🇸 1978

116 mins

Comedy/Thriller

W: Colin Higgins

DP: David M. Walsh

Ed: Pembroke J. Herring

Mus: Charles Fox

Goldie Hawn (Gloria Mundy), Chevy Chase (Lt. Tony Carlson), Burgess Meredith (Mr. Hennessey), Dudley Moore (Stanley Tibbetts), Rachel Roberts (Gerda Casswell / Delia Darrow), Eugene Roche (Charlie Thorncrest)

Screwball comedy-thriller-meets-Hitchcock parody which is basically a series of homages to the iconic director, but is still entertaining and often amusing.

Goldie Hawn's kook & Chevy Chase's reporter team up to prevent a plot to assassinate the pope in San Francisco, deviated by a group of strange individuals including a murderous dwarf and a sinister albino.

While the film is clearly the work of a magpie who's seen all the Hitchcock films, it is thoroughly enjoyable, on the same level as the same screenwriter's Silver Streak (qv).

6/10