Police Squad!

(1982)

★ 7.9 IMDb · 450 votes

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Year: 1982

Runtime: 25 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джерри Цукер, Дэвид Цукер, Джим Абрахамс

Cast: Лесли Нильсен, Alan North, Ed Williams, Уильям Дюэл, Marvin Miller, Rex Hamilton

Plot

In this cult parody of cop dramas, replete with farce and sight gags, Lieutenant Frank Drebin and his fellow officers from Police Squad bungle their way though crime investigations.

Marginally a "straight" police drama in the Jack Webb/Quinn Martin school, Police Squad occurs in a strange universe where everything is taken literally (when a name "rings a bell" we hear bells go off every time someone mentions it), non sequiturs occur (a mime tries to spell out a ransom note, and Officer Nordberg guesses "Theme From a Summer Place") and sight gags abound (while looking for a corpse, someone wants to know the time and the dead man's hand drops out of a tree).