Foul Play

Foul Play (1978) is a screwball crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Colin Higgins and starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase at their most charming. Shy San Francisco librarian Gloria Mundy picks up a hitchhiker who slips her a hidden message — and ends up dead in her cinema seat minutes later, whispering "Beware of the dwarf."

What follows involves an albino assassin, a very determined little person, a conspiracy tied to a papal visit, and a police lieutenant who spends most of the film one step behind Gloria's very real danger. Burgess Meredith shows up as her neighbor and quietly outshines everyone around him. Dudley Moore has a brief but memorably unhinged cameo.

The film landed as a light, affectionate riposte to the harder-edged thrillers of the era — more slapstick than sinister, built on the genuine chemistry between Hawn and Chase. Stream Foul Play (1978) on iFILM.