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Foul Play is a 1978 American romantic neo-noir comedy ... His first choice for the male lead was ... Goldie Hawn is superb in a strong return to pictures, and Chevy ...
Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude, [1] and for directing the films Foul Play (1978) and 9 to 5 (1980).
Roche played dramatic supporting roles as well, often playing deceptively ordinary men who are shown to be capable of ruthlessness, menacing violence or disturbing perversity. In Murder, She Wrote, he played a bad cop who attempts to kill Jessica Fletcher, and as a criminal mastermind posing as a Catholic bishop in the film Foul Play.
Chase's early film roles included Tunnel Vision (1976); Foul Play (1978, a box-office hit that made more than $44 million [40] and earned Chase a Golden Globe nomination); and Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980). The role of Eric "Otter" Stratton in National Lampoon's Animal House was written with Chase in mind, but he turned the role down to work on Foul ...
In the late 1970s Moore moved to Hollywood, where he had a supporting role in the hit film Foul Play (1978) with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase. The following year saw his breakout role in Blake Edwards's 10, which became one of the biggest box-office hits of 1979 and gave him an unprecedented status as a romantic leading man.
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 6 Coma: United Artists: Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Hari Rhodes, Richard Doyle, Lance LeGault, Tom Selleck, Joanna Kerns, Ed Harris, Philip Baker Hall
The 1978 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1979 to honour the worst the film industry had to offer in 1978. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The ballot was later revisited and the expanded version was released in the summer of 2003. [ 3 ]
June 28, 1978: Heaven Can Wait: Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture June 30, 1978: The Bad News Bears Go to Japan: July 14, 1978: Foul Play: September 13, 1978: Days of Heaven: Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007 September 15, 1978: Up in Smoke: Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2024 September 29, 1978: Death ...