The Naked Gun movie corrections

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Jane Spencer: Can I interest you in a night cap?

Frank Drebin: No, thank you, I don't wear them.

Mistakes

When Drebbin is riding in the back seat of the "driver's ed." car, the gear shift stays in the same position even when the car is reversing. See more...

Many elements of this movie, including Leslie Nielsen's character (named Frank) and the predecessor TV series Police Squad's title sequence and to some extent the title melody (also used in the Naked Gun movies) were adopted from the 1957-60 series "M Squad", starring Lee Marvin as Lt. Frank Ballinger. See more...

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The Naked Gun (1988) - 12 corrections

Directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen, O.J. Simpson, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban (add more)

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance

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Towards the end of the movie when the baseball scene is showing highlights as the song "I Love L.A" plays, you'll notice in one scene when a grand slam happens that 4 players cross second base. This is impossible since only the batter and the man on first should cross second base. [That's the joke! Only one or two players at most should have crossed second plate, but a whole string of players cross one after the other. Bear in mind the footage also includes a player getting his head taken off by a ball, and one being attacked by a tiger.]

Corrected by BocaDavie

In the scene where Frank sets fire to Ludwig's office, just after the sprinklers start, you see a closed blind or shutter covering a window behind a lamp behind Frank. The shot then briefly cuts away. When it cuts back to Frank, the blind is half-open and in the process of automatically closing. [I believe that in this scene everything is malfunctioning, including the window shade, and it repeatedly opens and closes. This would explain it being closed in one shot, and closing again in another.]

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In the film, the Angels' game is played in Dodger Stadium, which is not where the Angels play their home games at the time of the film. [One of the announcers mentions that they are at "The Big A", which is the nickname for Anaheim Stadium, the Angels' home field. Dodger Stadium was merely "cast" as Anaheim Stadium for the movie.]

The Angels score a grand slam home run, but it is not reflected on the scoreboard. There should be at least a "4" shown in one of the innings, but there isn't. [There is nothing evidenced to say it was a grand slam. Yes we see a few runners round the bases, but it could be also be a 2 or 3-run homer.]

At the end of the movie when Jane is about to kill Frank and they're talking, they get on the big arena screen. The problem is: who is taping them? Where's the microphone? [When Jane gets hypnotized and walks towards Drebin, Dredin, Ed and a couple of people stand at the edge of the balcony from where Ludwig takes his last fall; one of the people is a camera man with his piece running. As they become aware of the threat, the camera man is seen edging around Frank and Jane - and then the big screen shows the scenes between the two in public. Obviously it's said camera man's work.]

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There's a part in the movie where Frank and Jane get tattoos on their arms. But then later at the Queen's party, Jane's arms are completely exposed and there is no tattoo. [The dating scene between Drebin and Jane contains a LOT of silliness - for instance, they both change their clothes and Jane her hairstyle in almost every scene, and they laugh about the movie 'Platoon' which really has nothing comical about it. Also, when Drebin delivers Jane to her apartment, she says that they had just met yesterday, whereas their type of date would have taken at least half a week. So I guess the 'smaller details' about this part - including the tattooing - ought not to be taken THAT seriously.]

At the onset of the baseball game, the first Mariners batter is announced as "Mariner's lead-off hitter and shortstop, Jay Johnstone." A few minutes later, right before Frank Drebin starts purposely calling every pitch a ball, the Mariner batter at the plate is announced as "Shortstop, Armando Pershoni" [When Frank intentionally calls balls, he is delaying the seventh inning stretch. Plenty of baseball is played that we don't see from the beginning until this point. The shortstop could have been changed or positions switched.]

Near the end of the movie in the scene where Ludwig is man-handling Jane (Presley) up the stairs of the ballpark, she is screaming but if you look closely in several shots during the struggle it is clear that is a stuffed dummy of some kind. [This is entirely intentional and is what we with a sense of awareness like to call a 'JOKE'.]

An air bag is shown to have deployed in Drebin's car after hitting some garbage cans. Air bags didn't become available in the Ford Crown Victoria until 1990 but the movie came out in 1988. Such a minor impact wouldn't have deployed the air bags anyway even if the car did actually have them. [Police cars sometimes have more safety features added to them that are not yet available on showroom model cars. Airbags obviously existed in 1988 and there is no reason that one could not be installed as it obviously was.]

Corrected by Myridon

In the romance scene, when Jane takes off her shirt, you can see that she has a top on despite nudity. (Seen on DVD Widescreen Version). [She isn't wearing a shirt - it's a blue strapless dress. She pulls it off, and she's wearing a strapless bra underneath.]

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In the airport, we see a DC-10 (in United Airlines colors) landing, but when Drebbin deplanes, he gets off a Lockheed L-1011 (in TWA colors). [There is no indication that the DC-10 is supposed to be Franks plane. It is just a shot of any plane landing at LAX.]

When Frank is trying not to get the third out to the seventh inning stretch, and he throws up a bunch of balls to confuse the catcher, when you see a shot of the balls in the air, you see five balls, but he only throws up four, and you only see four drop. [Frank throws up four balls, you see five in the air ... because the actual fly ball is ALSO in the air.]

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