Dragnet

Dragnet is a 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Dabney Coleman, Harry Morgan, and Alexandra Paul, directed by Tom Mankiewicz. The screenplay is written by Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, and Tom Mankiewicz. The original music score was composed by Ira Newborn. The film was marketed with the tagline "'Just the Facts.'" Acting as both a parody and homage to the long-running Dragnet television series, Aykroyd plays Joe Friday... more

Dragnet is a 1987 film starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Dabney Coleman, Harry Morgan, and Alexandra Paul, directed by Tom Mankiewicz. The screenplay is written by Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, and Tom Mankiewicz. The original music score was composed by Ira Newborn. The film was marketed with the tagline "'Just the Facts.'" Acting as both a parody and homage to the long-running Dragnet television series, Aykroyd plays Joe Friday (nephew of the late Joe Friday from the series) while Hanks plays Pep Streebeck, his new partner. Harry Morgan reprises his role of Bill Gannon (partner of Joe's late uncle), now their captain. Alexandra Paul plays Friday's love interest, "the Virgin Connie Swail" while Plummer plays the villain, a soft-spoken televangelist, who secretly runs a cult of Pagan anarchists. Coleman plays the publisher of a skin magazine called Bait; his character is a direct parody of Larry Flynt. As did the original TV series, the movie begins with Sergeant... less