The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) — watch online on iFILM. Paramount Pictures released this deadpan comedy from director David Zucker, spinning off the six-episode TV show Police Squad! into a full feature that earned $152 million against a $12 million budget.

Leslie Nielsen plays Lieutenant Frank Drebin of the LAPD — a walking disaster who destroys evidence, falls for Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley), and accidentally uncovers a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. Ricardo Montalban plays the villain. George Kennedy is his long-suffering boss. Nielsen delivers every line of nonsense with the straight face of a man reading a terms-of-service agreement.

Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker — the team behind Airplane! — built a franchise here that still lands its jokes forty years on. Stream The Naked Gun (1988) online on iFILM.