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David Axelrod (writer)
Stan Burns (writer)
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Release Date:
February 1981 (USA) more
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Murderer who turn victim into human baked potato have real appetite for crime.
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Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders... more | add synopsis
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Halfway House: The Failed Completist
(From FilmExperience. 17 October 2009, 9:08 AM, PDT)
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It is FUN! more (13 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Ustinov | ... | Charlie Chan |
 | Lee Grant | ... | Mrs. Lupowitz |
 | Angie Dickinson | ... | Dragon Queen |
| Richard Hatch | ... | Lee Chan, Jr. |
| Brian Keith | ... | Police Chief Baxter |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Gillespie |
| Rachel Roberts | ... | Mrs. Dangers |
 | Michelle Pfeiffer | ... | Cordelia Farenington |
 | Paul Ryan | ... | Masten |
| Johnny Sekka | ... | Stefan |
| Bennett Ohta | ... | Hawaiian Chief of Police |
| David Hirokane | ... | Lee Chan Sr. |
| Karlene Crockett | ... | Brenda Lupowitz |
 | Michael Fairman | ... | Bernard Lupowitz |
| James Ray | ... | Haynes |
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97 min
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Iceland:L (re-rating) | Iceland:LH (original rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | UK:PG | USA:PG
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Because of 'Rachel Roberts'’ fragile mental and psychical health, the producers had another actress on standby just in case Roberts became unwell. more
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Edited into How American Cinema Changed Hollywood Forever (2003) (V) more
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This is not a great movie, yet my wife and I laughed ourselves into pain. The great Peter Ustinov spins his previous role in oriental parody from "One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing"; Richard Hatch creates the most incompetent bumbler in decades of motion picture bumblers with some hilarious slapstick results; Lee Grant is a gorgeous grandmother; Roddy McDowell is the supercilious butler in a motorized wheelchair; and Michelle Pfeiffer is a ditzy Goldie Hawn clone - as well as being luminously beautiful and excellent at playing a brainless idealist just perfectly designed for the klutzy Lee Chan Jr. It is designed for fans of Charlie Chan, and it is a parody, but a loving one. The topical references are side-splitting; it helps to be old enough to have been an adult in 1981. The references to other movies abound, some subtle some obvious. The visual humour is on the level of slaps with a halibut but fun nonetheless. I gather the movie was a critical and box office flop. Even I missed it back then but I find it a guilty pleasure to disagree with almost everyone else on earth (except my wife, and that is what counts for more!): I enjoyed this idiotic little movie. And the dog deserved an Oscar.