Hanky Panky (1982)
When you're wanted for a murder you didn't commit, chased for secrets you didn't steal, and running from people who want to kill you, the worst mistake you can make is falling in love...
Naïve 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's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
- Date of release
- 1982-06-04
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (74)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Mystery, Action, Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Sidney Poitier
Casting
- Gene Wilder — Michael Jordon
- Gilda Radner — Kate Hellman
- Kathleen Quinlan — Janet Dunn
- Richard Widmark — Ransom
- Robert Prosky — Hiram Calder
- Josef Sommer — Adrian Pruitt
- Johnny Sekka — Lacey
- Jay O. Sanders — Katz
- Larry Bryggman — Stacy
- Pat Corley — Mr. Puckett (Pilot)
- Jay Garner — Buck
- Sam Gray — Dr. John Wolff
Interesting facts
Hanky Panky is a 1982 American comedy thriller Metrocolor film directed by Sidney Poitier, starring Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner.
Production
The film was developed as a follow-up to the successful Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor film Stir Crazy. However, Pryor chose not to participate and Gilda Radner was brought in as a replacement, with the script rewritten for her role. Wilder and Radner met during filming and later married.
Locations include Parc East, Knickerbocker Club, Madison Square Garden,
Roosevelt Hotel, Ware Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, New England Aquarium, and Grand Canyon National Park.
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