Main Cast: Nancy Allen, David Naughton, Laurence Luckinbill, Alice Ghostley
Release Year: 1984
Country: US
Run Time: 88 minutes
Plot
If the Perils of Pauline were set in a campy New York City with a dash of trash added in, Not for Publication would result, though the awful jokes and kinky characters are not going to be entertaining to everyone. Lois (Nancy Allen) is a reporter at a sleazoid newspaper, a paragon of yellow journalism that she is determined to turn back to its first incarnation as The New York Enforcer, a better paper. The not-so-good Mayor Franklyn (Laurence Luckinbill) adopts Lois as his personal assistant when she bursts into his office one day and strongly advises him to cut the pressure to shut down porn shops or he will lose the vote of New York's youth. She hires a photographer (David Naughton) to work in the mayor's office, planning to use his skills for her tabloid paper -- but then a quirky menage à trois arises between the mayor, the photographer, and Lois. After some undercover sleuthing in Long Island, Lois connects the mayor to various robberies that have occurred in the city and thinks of a way to bring back the New York Enforcer and handle the mayor at the same time. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Cork Hubbert - Odo; Barry Dennen - Woparico; Richard Blackburn - Jim; Robert Ahola - Signore Scoppi; Paul Bartel - TV Director; John Galt - Teddy, The Robber; Helena Humann - 1st Robbery Victim; Leslie Lyon - Receptionist; Sonia Petrova - Angelique; Darcy Pulliam - Redhead Pickup; Alan Rosenberg - Bernie; Mary Ann Smith - Bestiary Guest; Don Wyse - McCann, The Robber; Anne Kimmel - Floor Manager; Desmond Dhooge - Elevator Man; Marsha McClelland - 1st Girl at Bar; David J. Moeller - Duffy; Hart Sprager - Gene, The Robber; Jeanne Evans - Lois' Mother; Michael O'Sullivan - Eddie; Richard Paul - Troppogrosso; Randy Moore - Mayor's PR Man
Credit
Michael O'Sullivan - Art Director, Jack Cummings - Associate Producer, Lynwood Spinks - Associate Producer, Rondi Davis - Costume Designer, Ira Halberstadt - First Assistant Director, Paul Bartel - Director, Alan Toomayan - Editor, Mark Forstater - Executive Producer, Meyer - Composer (Music Score), Meyer - Songwriter, Alan Cassell - Camera Operator, Becky Block - Production Designer, George Tirl - Cinematographer, Anne Kimmel - Producer, Paul Bartel - Screenwriter
