Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Short description
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult follows Lieutenant Frank Drebin, who has settled into retirement and is trying to start a family with his wife, Jane. When his old colleagues ask him to return to duty, he goes undercover in a state prison to get close to Rocco, a terrorist with plans for a major attack. The film builds toward that scheme unfolding at the Academy Awards ceremony, with Frank's domestic troubles running alongside the investigation. Leslie Nielsen leads as Drebin, with Priscilla Presley as Jane, George Kennedy as Ed Hocken, O.J. Simpson as Nordberg, Fred Ward as Rocco, and Kathleen Freeman as Muriel. Peter Segal directed from a screenplay by David Zucker, Pat Proft and Robert LoCash, with Zucker and Robert K. Weiss producing. The film runs 83 minutes and was released in March 1994.
Made for 30 million dollars, it returned 132 million worldwide. Audience ratings sit at 6.5 on IMDb from 127,000 votes and 6.5 on TMDB from 2,623 votes, while the critics' score is 5.9 from 67 reviews, so critics rated it slightly lower than viewers did. Its large vote counts on IMDb point to a broad, enduring audience. Segal's first feature, it came before Tommy Boy, My Fellow Americans, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, Get Smart, Grudge Match, Second Act, My Spy and My Spy The Eternal City. It is a comedy crime film from the United States, with 113 credited cast members and 120 credited crew.
What's left behind the scenes
- Frank's 'nightmarish' dream at the beginning is a parody of the famous shootout scene at the train station from the film 'The Untouchables' (1987), and the episode with the strollers is a reference to the Odessa Steps massacre from the film 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925).
- At the end of the film, the main villain Papshmir sits in the toilet and flips through a Playboy magazine with Anna Nicole Smith on the cover.
- The prison fight scene involved members of biker gangs hired specifically for this purpose (they were hired to make the prisoners look believable). At the time, no one knew it, but members of four rival gangs participated in the filming of this scene. Fortunately, there were no incidents.
- On the day of filming the flashback shootout, George Kennedy (1925-2016), who played Edd, fell ill with pneumonia. He felt so bad that he couldn't even walk. Director Peter Segal ordered him to sit throughout the entire scene. The actor doesn't even get up when his character meets Frank, played by Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010). And when it was time for his character to leave, Kennedy simply leaned back so that he was out of the camera's frame, creating the impression that his character had gotten up and walked out.
- The so-called 'rare' Canary Island pine is, in reality, the most widespread tree in the world.
- The film's title alludes to long-playing vinyl records that were played at a speed of 33 and one-third revolutions per minute. The original title was 'Naked Gun 33 1/3: For the Record' (the English 'record' translates as both a record and a recording, and the phrase 'for the record' means 'for the record' or 'for the report'), but it was changed to '…The Final Insult' for fear that not all audiences would appreciate the pun.
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