| Hot Dogs | |
|---|---|
| French | Les Chiens chauds |
| Directed by | Claude Fournier |
| Written by | Claude Fournier |
| Produced by | John Dunning Marie-José Raymond |
| Starring | Harry Reems Geoffrey Bowes Nicole Morin |
| Cinematography | Claude Fournier |
| Edited by | Claude Fournier Marie-José Raymond |
| Music by | Paul Baillargeon |
Production companies | DAL Productions Rose Films Squad Films |
| Distributed by | Cinepix |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Hot Dogs (French: Les Chiens chauds) is a Canadian crime comedy/sexploitation film, directed by Claude Fournier and released in 1980.[1] The film has been released under a variety of English titles, including Cops and Other Lovers, Under the Cover Cops and The Clean Up Squad, but has become best known as Hot Dogs.[2]
The film stars Harry Reems as "Mr. Clean", the leader of a police vice squad who is determined to rid Montreal of prostitution, and Geoffrey Bowes as Maurice, a vice squad officer whose wife leaves him after discovering that his job involves dressing up as a woman to catch and arrest johns, who then decides to hire top local prostitute Estelle (Nicole Morin) to entrap Mr. Clean in a sex scandal in order to get him fired.[3]
The cast also includes Daniel Pilon, Paul Berval, Greg Swanson, Fiona Reid, Gilles Latulippe, Ghyslain Tremblay, Jean Lapointe, Monique Lepage and Guy L'Écuyer.