1982 Directed by Sidney Poitier
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
Gene Wilder Gilda Radner Kathleen Quinlan Richard Widmark Robert Prosky Josef Sommer Johnny Sekka Jay O. Sanders Sam Gray Larry Bryggman Pat Corley Johnny Brown Bill Beutel Nat Habib James Tolkan James Greene Jay Garner Stephen D. Newman Bill Moor Peter Boyden Doris Belack Don Plumley Anthony McKay David Snell Floyd Ennis Donald Symington John Wylie Bradford English Richard Southern Show All…
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1982 Marathon - Film #67
Is there anything more frustrating than watching two stars you love floundering in a subpar movie?
I mean just the thought of Wilder and Radner starring in what was originally intended to be the Wilder & Pryor followup to Stir Crazy sounds like it should’ve been a blast.
But unfortunately, they’re both left stranded in this unfunny MacGuffin of a movie, and even Wilder said it was one of the worst films he ever starred in.
In fact, it seems like the only thing this box office bomb ever sparked was their actual real-life relationship.
”Not bad, uh?”
“You want compliments now?”
1982 In Review - June
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Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
This was planned as a follow up to Stir Crazy, with both Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor again starring, but I think when Richard Pryor took one look at the script he bailed and Gene Wilder should have done likewise. It’s not a good movie, if it’s a comedy it fails on every level and worst of all it fails in not giving Gilda Radner anything funny to do, which is a total waste…
I didn’t know this existed
It was a splendid watch after a long day at work whilst cleaning out the guinea pigs
gene wilder spends half this movie yelling and the other half being in love with gilda hes so me
The plot is incomprehensible and tiring but Wilder and Ratner together can't miss. I'd like to think the sequence in the tiny plane with the gassy pilot - which gave me the most laughs of the whole movie - was the specific moment they fall in love.
Poitier es un director detestable, el guión es un thriller conspiranóico que no está mal del todo y Wilder y Radner se enamoraron aquí. Combinas eso con un par de risas improvisadas marca de la casa (marca de ese director terrible que a veces dejaba libres a los chicos) y un par de buenas ideas y, bueno, pasas el rato.
Es una pena que la calidad de la mayor parte de la filmografía de Wilder sea tan inferior a su talento cómico.
Pretty standard middle-80s “guy on the run” comedy caper. Certainly not amongst the best, but with Wilder and Radner leading the charge, it’s an incredibly fun watch.
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Gene Wilder plays Michael Jordon in Hanky Panky (1982). Clearly a film made just before basketball superstar Michael Jordan played a single game in the NBA.
Hanky Panky (1982) stars Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner.
According to IMDB: According to Gene Wilder's autobiography "Kiss Me Like A Stranger" (2005), this was the picture in which he and Gilda Radner (who was married to G.E. Smith at the time) met. Radner & Smith divorced in 1982. Radner and Wilder married in 1984.
I'm sure Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were happy that this film was made and they met and they fell in love and then they married but that didn't stop Gene Wilder from saying this about the…
There’s a scene (on the helicopter just before the pilot has a heart attack) when they clearly just let the shot run on way longer than intended and you literally have to listen to this random dude belching for what feels like 10 minutes but it doesn't matter because Gene Wilder’s chemistry with Gilda Radner is every bit as wonderful as what he had with Richard Pryor and you're just sitting there giggling with them. There’s also an earlier scene where Wilder gets out of a sticky situation by fondling a random woman’s ass on the subway, and that’s not the only awkward moment involving the kind of casual, acceptable sexism these old comedies are frequently full of (the way…
DER UNSICHTBARE DRITTE in lustig, wobei das viel weniger lustiger ist als man bei der Besetzung Gene Wilder/Gilda Radner erwarten könnte. Ohne die beiden wäre das ein astreiner Thriller und ist es irgendwie auch, da die Jokes rar gesät sind. Die Zuschauer haben nicht ganz zu Unrecht was anderes erwartet, daher war HANKY PANKY auch ein ziemlicher Flop nach dem Mega-Erfolg von STIR CRAZY (100 Mio. Einspiel) und dem veritablen Erfolg DIE FRAU IN ROT, der danach kam. Mochte HANKY PANKY aber trotzdem etwas, da hier zumindest nix langweilig ist.
“Not bad, huh?”
“What?”
“NOT BAD, HUH?!”
“You want compliments now!?”
Pretty dull until Gilda shows up but her scenes with Gene are pure magic! The film itself is mediocre but at least now I finally know the origin of this adorable photo of the two of them as Gene briefly wears this same dress in this!
