Foul Play (1978)
| Release Date | 14 July 1978 |
| Tagline | A new comedy-thriller from Paramount for Summer '78 |
| Genre | Comedy, Thriller |
| Country | USA |
| Filming Locations | 22nd & Church Streets, Noe Valley, San Francisco, California, USA |
| Language | English |
| Sound Mix | Stereo |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Feature |
| Film Class | Comedy Thriller |
| Themes | Amateur Sleuths, Assassination Plots, Woman In Jeopardy, Nothing Goes Right |
| Tones | Irreverent, Quirky, Silly, Madcap, Ominous |
| Tags | Assassin, Conductor [music], Conspiracy, Detective, Hitchhiker, Hitman, Investigation, Library, Murder, Orchestra, Police, Pope |
Foul Play is a 1978 American comic mystery/thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins. In it, a recently divorced librarian is drawn into a mystery when a stranger hides a roll of film in a pack of cigarettes and gives it to her for safekeeping.
Cast and Crew
Cast
Lou Cutell
House manager
Barbara Sammeth
Sally
Ion Teodorescu
The Turk
Janet Wood
Sylvia
David Cole
Theatre Usher
Bill Gamble
Dickinson
Cyril Magnin
Pope Pius XIII
Michael David Lee
Limo driver
Neno Russo
Luigi
Rollin Moriyama
Japanese man
Mitsu Yashima
Japanese woman
M. James Arnett
Truck driver
Jophery C. Brown
Cop
John Hatfield
Security guard
Chuck Walsh
Newscaster
Connie Sawyer
Screaming lady
F. Jo Mohrbach
Fat lady
Garry Goodrow
Henpecked husband
Enrico Di Giuseppe
Nanki-Pooh, the Son of the Mikado of Japan
Glenys Fowles
Yum-Yum, a schoolgirl, betrothed to Ko-Ko
Kathleen Hegierski
Peep-Bo, a Schoolgirl
Sandra Walker
Pitti-Sing, a Schoolgirl
Thomas Jamerson
Pish-Tush, a Noble Lord
Richard McKee
Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everythingelse
Jane Shaulis
Katisha, an Elderly Lady of the Mikado's Court
Shirley Python
Esme
Director
Producer
Peter V. Herald
associate producer
Edward K. Milkis
producer
Thomas L. Miller
producer
Original Music
Cinematographer
David M. Walsh
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Editor
Pembroke J. Herring
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Casting Director
Lynn Stalmaster
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Production Designer
Alfred Sweeney
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Set Decorator
Robert R. Benton
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Makeup Department
E. Thomas Case
makeup artist
Susan Germaine
hair stylist
Production Manager
Peter V. Herald
unit production manager
Lindsley Parsons Jr.
executive production manager: Paramount
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
M. James Arnett
second unit director
Gary D. Drigler
assistant director
Larry J. Franco
second assistant director
Art Department
Sidney H. Greenwood
property master
Gene Lauritzen
construction coordinator
William Ladd Skinner
set designer
Sound Department
Don Coufal
boom operator
Nicholas Eliopoulos
sound effects editor, sound effects supervisor, supervising sound editor
Jay M. Harding
sound re-recording mixer
Jeff Wexler
sound mixer
Visual Effects
Rachel Clement
restoration artist
Stunts
Glynn Rubin
stunt double
Frank James Sparks
stunt double
M. James Arnett
stunts, stunt coordinator
Craig R. Baxley
stunt driver, stunt performer
May Boss
stunts
Jophery C. Brown
stunts
Kitty O'Neil
stunts
Dominic Jack Pizzo Sr.
stunt driver
Camera and Electrical Department
Norman Harris
gaffer
Ron Kenyon
best boy
Michael R. Marquette
camera operator, assistant camera
Rexford L. Metz
director of photography: second unit
Richard Moran
key grip
Louis Niemeyer
first assistant camera: second unit
Casting Department
Toni Howard
casting associate
Music Department
Gilbert & Sullivan
composer: additional music
Robert Krüger
music editor
Ruby Raksin
orchestrator
Julius Rudel
conductor: "The Mikado"
Transportation Department
Joel Marrow
transportation coordinator
Other Crew
Harry Clein
unit publicist
Marie Kenney
script supervisor
Phill Norman
title designer
Production Company
Paramount Pictures
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Shelburne Associates
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Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Cinema International Corporation (CIC)
CIC Vídeo
CBS Television
Paramount Home Video
Miscellaneous
New York City Opera
performers: Excerpt from Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado
Panavision
lenses and panaflex camera
Movielab
color
Modern Film Effects
opticals
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