Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult
Lt. Frank Derbin has his legs cartoonishly stretched to the sides of his head, and fires a gun that ricochets on the sides of the poster with the bullet going through his shoes.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Segal
Written by
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRobert M. Stevens
Edited byJames R. Symons
Music byIra Newborn
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 18, 1994 (1994-03-18)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[2]
Box office$132 million

Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult is a 1994 American crime comedy film directed by Peter Segal (in his directorial debut) and written by Pat Proft, David Zucker (who also directed the previous two films in the series) and Robert LoCash. The film is the third and final installment in the Naked Gun film series, which was based on the television series Police Squad!. The Final Insult is the only film in the series that is not directed by David Zucker, with him serving as producer and co-writer instead. Police Squad! co-creators Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker returned as executive producers.

The "33+1⁄3" in the title is a reference to the number of revolutions per minute at which phonograph records play. The film was originally going to be titled The Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: Just for the Record, but was changed after the studio felt that audiences would not get the joke.[3] Leslie Nielsen returns as Lieutenant Frank Drebin (his original character from Police Squad!), along with Priscilla Presley as Jane Spencer Drebin, O. J. Simpson (in his last feature film before his subsequent trial three months later) as Officer Nordberg, and George Kennedy as Captain Ed Hocken. Newcomers to the series Fred Ward, Anna Nicole Smith, and Kathleen Freeman co-star as a gang of bombers set to blow up the Academy Awards ceremony. Raye Birk reprises his role as the villainous Pahpshmir from The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!.

  1. ^ "The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)". Filmaffinity. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
  2. ^ "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) - Financial Information". The Numbers.
  3. ^ Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (Comedy, Crime), Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, IMDB, March 18, 1994, retrieved January 4, 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)