Themes: Bodyguards, Fish Out of Water, Culture Clash
Main Cast: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Nancy Cartwright, Mills Watson
Release Year: 1988
Country: UK
Run Time: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a blue-blooded family, but he tries to ignore that to become the classic Chandleresque detective as he heads for Europe to follow the girl on her tour and keep her from being kidnapped by her stepmother who is really after her husband's secret formula for controlling the weather. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Viveca Lindfors - Mrs. Bellinger; Joe Michael Terry - Gary; Jewel Shepard - Peaches; John Bird - Professor Borg; Michael Gothard - Strett; Tracy Shakespeare - Pia; Camilla Soeberg - Sasha; Elizabeth Spriggs - Mrs. Van Der Reuter; Shawn Stevens - Saxaphone Player; Adam West; Christina Whitaker - Beach Girl; Ingolf David - Andersen; Birgitte Bruun - Lisa; Jørn Fauerschou - Santano; Lars Sidenius - Kurt
Credit
Jim Dultz - Art Director, Jefferson Colgate-Stone - Co-producer, John D. Schofield - Co-producer, Moss Mabry - Costume Designer, Andy Armstrong - First Assistant Director, James Kenelm Clarke - Director, Stanzi Stokes - Second Unit Director, Eric Boyd-Perkins - Editor, Danny Retz - Editor, Alan Hawkshaw - Composer (Music Score), John Coquillon - Cinematographer, Bill Kaplan - Sound/Sound Designer, James Kenelm Clarke - Screenwriter, Bjorn Blixt - Second Unit Director Of Photography
