Dragnet
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UPC: 5-035822-011946 (DVD)
Region Coding: Region 2
Production Year: 1987
Rating: PG (Parental guidance suggested)
Running Time: 101 min.
DVD Release: 7/31/2001
Case Type: Keep Case
Video Formats: Widescreen 1.77:1
Disc Formats: Single Sided, Single Layered
SRP: £19.99
This is the city.. and only Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks can save it in this hilarious box-office blockbuster that pays homage to the original police drama of the '50s and '60s.

Aykroyd is at his comic best as the namesake nephew of Detective Sgt. Joe Friday. Like his uncle, he's a blue-suited, by the rules cop who reluctantly joins forces with his footlose partner Pep Streebek (Hanks) to rescue the city of Angels from the machinations of a power-mad Reverend and corrupt Police Commissioner.

And those are "just the facts" of this hysterically funny action-comedy.

Genres
Comedy
Crime


Studios

Media Companies: Columbia TriStar Home Video
Features
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Production Notes
DVD-ROM Content
Subtitles
Dutch
English
Swedish
Audio Tracks
English Dolby Digital Dolby Surround
German Dolby Digital Dolby Surround
Czech Dolby Digital Dolby Surround
Hungarian Dolby Digital Mono
Polish Dolby Digital Mono
Cast
Dan Aykroyd as Friday
Tom Hanks as Streebek
Christopher Plummer as Whirley
Harry Morgan as Gannon
Alexandra Paul as Connie Swail
Jack O'Halloran as Emil Muzz
Elizabeth Ashley as Jane Kirkpatrick
Dabney Coleman as Jerry Caesar
Kathleen Freeman as Enid Borden
Bruce Gray as Mayor Parvin
Lenka Peterson as Granny Mundy
Julia Jennings as Sylvia Wiss
Lisa Aliff as April
Joe Altmark as Milkman
Nina Arvesen as Lady Motor Cop
Fred Asparagus as Tito Provencal
Peter Aykroyd as Phoney CHP #2
Larry Bilzarian as SWAT Trooper
Jim Boeke as Nectar Pagan
Sandra Canning as Baitmate
William Chalmers as Observatory Pagan
Donald Craig as Announcer
Karen Criswell as Mansion Cellist
Josh Cruze as Police Officer
Jenniffer Curry as Mansion Violinist
Gray Daniels as Crewman #1
Gary Lee Davis as Leggings Pagan
Susan Deemer as Coffee Bar Dancer
Juli Donald as Zookeeper
Sandra Eng as TV Reporter
Ava Fabian as Baitmate
Kimberly Foster as Betsy Blees
Ruben Garfias as Tough #2
Sharon Gilchrist as Mansion Musician
Chester Grimes as Pagan
Bert Hinchman as Night Watchman
D.D. Howard as Officer Robin Gilbert
Peter Leeds as Roy Grest
Margaret Lenzey as Baitmate
Lori Leonelli as Baitmate
Lisa London as 1982 Redhead
Kent MacLachlan as Young Officer
Christopher Mankiewicz as White Coat
Maurice Marsac as Maitre d'
Marshall Maurice Mitchell as Tough #1
Stuart Quan as Tough #3
Ingrid M. Rhoades as Baitmate
Casey Sander as Phoney CHP #1
Billy Ray Sharkey as Drug Pagan
Jimmie F. Skaggs as Caterer Pagan
John Walton Smith, Jr. as Lt. Thumb
Dona Speir as Baitmate
Chuck Thornton as Mo Sarkus
Bill Wittman as Narrator (voice)
Meg Wyllie as Mrs. Gannon
Harry Perry as Guitar Player (uncredited)
Shannon Tweed as Baitmate (uncredited)
Sydney Urshan as Officer Conklin (uncredited)
Crew
Direction:
Tom Mankiewicz: Director
Writing:
Dan Aykroyd: Writer
Alan Zweibel: Writer
Tom Mankiewicz: Writer
Production:
Bernie Brillstein: Executive Producer
David Permut: Producer
Robert K. Weiss: Producer
Cinematography:
Matthew F. Leonetti: Director of Photography
Film Editing:
Richard Halsey: Film Editor
William Gordean: Film Editor
Music:
Ira Newborn: Composer
Peter Aykroyd: Song Writer
Dan Aykroyd: Song Writer
Pat Thrall: Song Writer
Walter Schumann: Theme By
Sound:
John Stacy: Supervising Sound Editor
George Frederick: Sound Editor
Jeff Clark: Sound Editor
Don Malouf: Sound Editor
Colin Mouat: Sound Editor
Joe Parker: Sound Editor
Kyle Wright: Sound Editor
Willie Burton: Production Sound Mixer
Rick Alexander: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Daniel Leahy: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Andy MacDonald: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art:
Taryn DeChellis: Costume Designer
Robert F. Boyle: Production Designer
Frank Richwood: Art Director
Daniel Striepeke: Make-up Artist
Gerald O'Dell: Make-up Artist
Dan Moore: Costume Designer
Cliff Wenger: Visual Effects
Whitey Krumm: Visual Effects
Roger Hansen: Visual Effects
Jim Thomson: Visual Effects
Jeff Frink: Visual Effects
Syd Dutton: Visual Effects
Bill Taylor: Visual Effects
David B. Miller: Creature Design