Detective School Dropouts
Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.
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"This is one of the best comedy movies of all time that i have seen, up there with the likes of History of the world, Space balls, The naked gun series & the police academy series. The movie is so fast paced & so incredibly funny that there are very few words to describe it. One scene is better than the other, what with the copier machine scene to the mannequin scene, the Grey poodle fufu to the car chase in Italy. Who can forget the scene from the museum & the leaning tower of Pisa chase. Also the lines "They don't make monks like they used to" & "This is Am..."
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Cannon initially contracted Tommy Chong to direct. Chong scouted locations in Rome, Italy, but thought the script wasn't funny and suggested adding a romantic subplot. He left the project after Lorin Dreyfuss and David Landsberg rejected his script revisions.
In the meantime, Cheech Marin signed with Columbia to work on his first solo feature: Born in East L.A. (1987). According to Chong, when Marin first told his comic-partner about the project (sometime after he left the Cannon project), he prefaced his decision, insisting he'd felt obligated to work on his own picture since Chong was off in Rome working on "his" own film.
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Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.