a5c7b9f00b Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she&#39;s later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run. Architect Michael Jordan, a Chicago Architect, is New York on business. A beautiful stranger identifying herselfJanet Dunn, runs into the taxi cab he&#39;s using. He volunteers to put a package into the mailbox for her after she hastily addresses the envelope. Infatuated with her goes to see her at her hotel. She brushes him off and closes the door in his face. He is about to leave when he hears a shot. Janet opens the door and falls into his arms dead. Now everyone believes that he&#39;s the killer. A mysterious group that&#39;s after the package is now after him. His only ally is Kate Hellman, who has secrets of her own. To clear his name they have to find out what was in the package, who wants it and why. I can be short about this movie: Hilarious. It made me laugh so much that I almost ran out of oxygen.<br/><br/>Of course the story line is thin, and the musical score is just horrible…. but it is about the slapstick, the over the top panicking and the making fun of and the trying to escape from the otherwise in real life quite scary and threatening situations.<br/><br/>Of course the airplane scene is the most funniest scene I have ever seen in a movie. It appeals on everyone&#39;s fears that when in an airplane you could crash and that the pilot is just a person of flesh and blood who could become ill or whatever. I am sure that every airplane passenger with a little bit of fear of flying has thought about this.<br/><br/>And the airplane scene is not funny because the pilot is belching, like I read in a review. That would mean this film would be on the level of the Naked Gun series. The belching is just the introduction to this scene, the warming up. You think that this must be the funny part, and you start to laugh a little bit while thinking: &quot;Is this supposed to be funny?&quot;. But when you know Gene Wilder&#39;s humour you know it can not stop there.<br/><br/>No, the comedy starts after this, when the pilot dies. When Gene Wilder just does not want to know the truth and just does not want to face reality and chooses to deny reality, to which audiences can relate: everyone at least at one point in their lives chooses to put their head in the sand. But when Gene Wilder does it, he does it in such a hilariously, hysterical funny way.<br/><br/>This film always stayed with me, over the years. And I just saw it again and it made me laugh justhardit did before, when I was in my teens.<br/><br/>So go along with the make believe, do not demand a solid script and just go with the slapstick and the hysteria. And laugh! A similar set-up of a film made after this one shows that even an apparent rip-off can be funny, although I can tell honestly that the 1987 Bette Midler/Shelley Long comedy was not ripping this off. It&#39;s a shame because I had high hopes for the first pairing of Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, and they end up with a humorless thriller that wastes their talents. If I had wanted a spy thriller, I would have gotten a James Bond film, not Willy Wonka meets Emily Latella. <br/><br/>Wilder is in the wrong place at the wrong time, ending up accused of killing Kathleen Quinlan and on the run with Radner, going from New York to Boston to the grand canyon while being chased by Richard Widmark and his thugs for a convoluted old computer tape. It is a mess of a plot with familiar character players popping up in minute long cameos. It took a while for this to get off the ground, and I breathed a sigh of relief when Gilda showed up. Unfortunately, there aren&#39;t really any major laughs, and far too many plot twists, none of which are thick enough to fill up the holes. Gene and Gilda deserved a lot better than this, especially in a film directed by Sidney Poitier.
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