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| Title: NAKED GUN Year: 1956 Rating: *** |
Before becoming the theatrical franchise for POLICE SQUAD, the title NAKED GUN referred to a b-Western where the first half sets up expository dialogue involving the characters in a small, dangerous town that mainly consists of a jailhouse and saloon indoors, and a hanging square outside, are part of some kind of curse...
Involving a plot-line that becomes clear over halfway through: as token stranger Willard Parker was sent to return a stolen chestful of jewels to the rightful owner, a Spanish woman long dead, survived by an adult daughter...
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Tom Brown
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Initially unknown to be creature-feature ingenue Mara Corday as one of two freshly-arrived saloon girls, who, led by slightly older and far tougher scene-stealing Veda Ann Borg (THE FEARMAKERS), dodge fist-flying scuffles between local grimacing goon Timothy Carey and buried-co-lead Tom Brown as a knife-throwing gambler, having bought-out vengeful bar-owner Barton MacClane, secretly in cahoots with noose-happy judge Billy House...
Turns out these two really want the loot... but the energetic characters mean more than the post-heist story, and had this been the pilot of a TV series, NAKED GUN would've been a pretty neat crooked-town series.
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Veda Ann Borg
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker |
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN |
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker
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| Timothy Carey in NAKED GUN with Chick Chandler |
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Timothy Carey in NAKED GUN
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Veda Ann Borg in NAKED GUN with Barton MacClane and Timothy Carey
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| Willard Parker in NAKED GUN with Veda Ann Borg |
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| Tom Brown in NAKED GUN with Veda Ann Borg |
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Billy House in NAKED GUN with Timothy Carey and Tom Brown
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Veda Ann Borg
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker |
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Timothy Carey and Veda Ann Borg
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Timothy Carey in NAKED GUN with Rick Vallin
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker |
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker |
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker |
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker |
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Tom Brown and Morris Ankrum
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker |
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Willard Parker
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Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Tom Brown
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| Mara Corday in NAKED GUN with Veda Ann Borg |
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