Foul Play (1978)
- Starring:
- Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, (more)
- Director(s):
- Colin Higgins
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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As he did in his screenplay for Silver Streak (1974), writer/director Colin Higgins mixes life-and-death melodrama with broad slapstick in Foul Play. Goldie Hawn stars as Gloria Mundy, a recent divorcée whose attempts to start life anew in San Francisco are bollixed up when she is inadvertently swept up in an assassination plot against the Pope. Offering sometimes dubious aid and comfort to Gloria is bumbling federal agent Tony Carlson (Chevy Chase). The film's comedy ranges from the farcical seduction efforts by musician Stanley Tibbets (Dudley Moore) to the zany, gag-filled car-chase finale. Foul Play features character actors Rachel Roberts and Eugene Roche as villains, Burgess Meredith as a martial arts-happy landlord, and Billy Barty as a long-suffering religious bookseller. It also packs in a memorable "throwaway" gag involving a profane Scrabble game played by sweet little old ladies Queenie Smith and Hope Summers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 116 mins
Complete Cast of Foul Play
- Goldie Hawn - Gloria Mundy
- Burgess Meredith - Hennessey
- Eugene Roche - Archbishop Thorncrest
- Bruce Solomon - Bob Scott
- Brian Dennehy - Fergie
- Billy Barty - J.J. MacKuen
- Marc Lawrence - Stiltskin
- Ion Teodorescu - Turk
- John Hancock - Capt. Coleman
- Hope Summers - Ethel
- Cyril Magnin - Pope Pius XIII
- David Cole - Extra
- Jophery Brown - Cop
- Barbara Sammeth - Sally
- Janet Wood - Sylvia
- Joe Bellan - Man in Phone Booth
- Garry Goodrow - Henpecked Husband
- Chevy Chase - Tony Carlson
- Rachel Roberts - Gerda Casswell/Delia Darrow
- Dudley Moore - Stanley Tibbets
- Marilyn Sokol - Stella
- Chuck McCann - Theater Manager
- Don Calfa - Scarface
- Cooper Huckabee - Sandy
- Pat Ast - Mrs. Venus
- Queenie Smith - Elsie
- Irene Tedrow - Mrs. Monk
- Chuck Walsh - Newscaster
- William Frankfather - Whitney Jackson
- Lou Cutell - House Manager
- Rollin Moriyama - Japanese Man
- M. James Arnett - Truck Driver
- Frances Bay - Mrs. Russel
- Connie Sawyer - Screaming Lady
- Director(s):
- Colin Higgins
- Writer(s):
- Colin Higgins
- Producer(s):
- Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Situations)
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