Foul Play is a 1978 American comic mystery/thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins. The screenplay focuses on a recently divorced librarian who is drawn into a plot to assassinate the Pope when a mysterious stranger hides a roll of film in a pack of cigarettes he gives her for safekeeping.
The film inspired an ABC television series starring Barry Bostwick and Deborah Raffin that aired in early 1981 and was cancelled after six episodes...
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Foul Play is a 1978 American comic mystery/thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins. The screenplay focuses on a recently divorced librarian who is drawn into a plot to assassinate the Pope when a mysterious stranger hides a roll of film in a pack of cigarettes he gives her for safekeeping.
The film inspired an ABC television series starring Barry Bostwick and Deborah Raffin that aired in early 1981 and was cancelled after six episodes.
Recent divorcée Gloria Mundy is a San Francisco librarian who is encouraged by a friend to leave herself open to new experiences. Her advice prompts Gloria to pick up an attractive man named Bob Scott when she encounters him and his disabled car on Highway 1. She impulsively invites him to join her at the movies that evening, and before they part ways he asks her to take his pack of cigarettes in order to help him curb his smoking. Unbeknownst to her, he has secreted a roll of film in the pack.
That evening, a seriously wounded Bob meets...
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