Over half an hour goes by before Higgins remembers to get Chase back on the screen. Chase appears in a pre-credit teaser making a bumbling, lewd attempt to pick up the heroine at a party. Higgins comes close to stranding Chevy Chase in his debut as a romantic lead. "Foul Play" never begins to make sense as a mystery 3 Dudley Moore and the 3-foot-9 Billy Barty, become the butts of grotesquely conceived and staged sight gags. Higgins can't keep his mind from wandering. Colin Higgins, who makes an inauspicious debut as his own director after rising to prominence with "Harold and Maude" and "The Silver Streak."Įager to fabricate escapist entertainment. There's no such excuse for the screenwriter. "Beware of the dwarf," whispers a dying man to an oblivious Goldie Hawn in the early going of "Foul Play." Cast as a nitwit librarian who becomes innocently entangled in a murder conspiracy, Hawn is supposed to act dumb.
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