Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase in "Foul Play"

[marillion]

This is how old I am.. I saw BOTH "Modern Problems" and "Foul Play" in the theaters... For the record, I also saw "Caddy Shack" in the theater, but I was very young.. My dad was supposed to take me to see whatever Disney movie was out at the time, but instead said "Don't tell mom!!" and we saw "Caddy Shack"... At 10 years old, it was my first experience with boob flashes in a movie..

[propita]

Kirby wrote:

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Foul Play is a fun movie, but for the Goldie/Chevy pairings I prefer Seems Like Old Times.

"I was getting my feet scraped."

"What Indian? OUR Indians?!"

Yeah, 'Seems Like Old Times' had good lines. I like them both. Bought them on cheap DVDs.

[Davros]

A recently aired episode of Biography said that Chase chose this movie over being in Animal House.

Here is a clip of him from the 1974 comedy The Groove Tube.

[E-DUB]

I think it was done by the same guys who did "Silverstreak".

[propita]

Another great movie!

SPOILERS!!







My dad said that they really ran a train into a station for that scene, since they were demolishing the station anyway.

[chardman]

scotpens wrote:

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Foul Play is a bit overrated, I think. Sure, there's some good chemistry between Chevy and Goldie, and cute turns by Dudley Moore as a would-be swinger and Billy Barty as an overbearing Bible salesman. But the whole thing -- well, I've just never found it that hilarious. Certainly not in the same league as What's Up, Doc? Now, THAT picture is funny!

The best thing about "What's up Doc?" are the out-takes, most notably those showing director Peter Bogdanovich playing the Barbara Streisand role in rehearsals with Ryan O'Neil.

[chardman]

propita wrote:

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My dad said that they really ran a train into a station for that scene, since they were demolishing the station anyway.

Sorry, but...

IMDB wrote:

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The climatic train crash at the end of the film was shot in an airplane hanger with a replica locomotive and a replica train station, both replicas were built especially for the movie. The engine crashing into the station was filmed in two adjoining hangars at the Lockeed Aircraft Plant in Burbank, California using a full-sized mock-up of the FP-7A locomotive. The replica of the Chicago train station spanned several acres. The train crash was filmed using nine cameras and amounted to just fourteen seconds of screen time. The cost of the set, its filming and equipment totaled $500,000 which averaged about $36,000 for each second of the sequence.