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Wrongfully Accused| Director/Writer: | Pat Proft | | Warner Bros.; PG–13; 89 minutes | | Release: | 8/98 | | Cast: | Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly Le Brock, Sandra Bernhard, Michael York and Melinda McGraw |
One would think that after the critical and commercial bombs Dracula: Dead and Loving It and Mr. Magoo, Nielsen would steer clear of spoofs that attempt to capitalize on his one-note comic shtick. He didn't, and viewers should avoid Wrongfully Accused. Nielsen's Ryan Harrison, “Lord of the Violin,” has been wrongfully accused of murdering the husband of a wealthy seductress (LeBrock). He hits the road after a The Fugitive-inspired crash, with a U.S. Marshall (Crenna) on his tail. The film includes insipid takeoffs of Titanic, Field of Dreams and North by Northwest.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Wrongfully Accused from Infoplease:
- Sam Sheppard - Biography of Sam Sheppard, The real-life inspiration for TV's The Fugitive
- Alfred Dreyfus - Biography of Alfred Dreyfus, The French captain wrongly accused of treason in 1894
- The Wrong Man (1957) - Starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J Stone, Charles Cooper
- I Confess (1952) - Starring Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne
- Sergeant Rutledge (1960) - Starring Jeffrey Hunter, Billie Burke, Constance Towers, Woody Strode, Juano Hernandez
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