Goldie Hawn

Chevy Chase

Burgess Meredith

Eugene Roche

Dudley Moore

Marilyn Sokol

Brian Dennehy

Marc Lawrence

Rachel Roberts

Frances Bay

Queenie Smith

Billy Barty

Chuck McCann

Don Calfa

Bruce Solomon

Cooper Huckabee

Pat Ast

Lou Cutell

William Frankfather

John Hancock

Barbara Sammeth

Hope Summers

Irene Tedrow

Ion Teodorescu

Janet Wood

Cyril Magnin

Rollin Moriyama

Mitsu Yashima

M. James Arnett

Colin Higgins

Lynn Stalmaster

Edward K. Milkis

Peter V. Herald

David M. Walsh

Pembroke J. Herring

Alfred Sweeney

Thomas L. Miller

Glynn Rubin

Alan Oliney

Frank James Sparks

May Boss

Tommy J. Huff

Kitty O'Neil

Hal Needham

Jophery C. Brown

Craig R. Baxley

Charles Fox

Susan Germaine

E. Thomas Case

Comedy

Mystery

Thriller

Foul Play

Paramount Pictures

Miller-Milkis Productions

Shelburne Associates

United States of America

I play Detective. You play Lady In Distress.

Foul Play is written and directed by Colin Higgins. It stars Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Dudley Moore and Brian Dennehy. Music is by Charles Fox and cinematography by David M. Walsh.

San Francisco librarian Gloria Mundy (Hawn) inadvertently gets embroiled with mobsters who are out to assassinate The Pope. Hooking up with cheeky copper Tony Carlson (Chase), she hopes to stay alive long enough to find out why people are trying to kill her!

Comedy thrillers are tough to get right, you gotta make people laugh and also grip them with drama, thankfully Colin Higgins gets it right in this delightful late 1970s production. He kind of plays safe by literally throwing many of the conventions of the genres into the mix, with weird villains, an odd couple (hello romance), pratfalls, near misses, McGuffin, bonkers situations (both dicey and funny) and etc etc. Boosted by a damn fine cast (Hawn and Chase are fun, charming and sexy together, while the supports excel), some superb Frisco scenery and a toe tapping 70s soundtrack, it rounds out as a breezy effort across the board. Where else you going to see Burgess Meredith and Rachel Roberts in a martial arts smack down? 7/10

English

Foul Play 1978 TV trailer