Two friends discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it, but soon have to deal with the two men who fixed it, the police investigating it, and the mob boss whose amorous wife is mixed up in it.
Acting
Danson and Mandel's frantic chemistry keeps the wheels on.
Direction
Edwards orchestrates pure bedlam with surgical precision.
Director
Blake Edwards
Ted Danson
Spence Holden
Howie Mandel
Dennis Powell
Richard Mulligan
Wayne "Turnip" Parragella
Stuart Margolin
Maurice "Binky" Drundza
María Conchita Alonso
Claudia Pazzo
Jennifer Edwards
Ellen Frankenthaler
Paul Sorvino
Tony Pazzo
Vic Polizos
Detective Hunker
James Cromwell
Detective Blist
Dennis Franz
Phil
Brooke Alderson
Aileen
Rick Ducommun
Wardell
Keye Luke
Ishimine
Ed Herlihy
TV Reporter
Walter Charles
Auctioneer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Blake Edwards wrote this in two weeks after Pink Panther studio pressure, essentially as a contractual obligation—yet it still has his fingerprints.
This bombed so hard it nearly ended Edwards' comedy career, but became a cable TV staple where its frantic energy actually plays better in fragments.
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