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Car 54, Where Are You? is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 28 january 1994 with David Johansen
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
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Add to a movie listCar 54, Where Are You? is a 1994 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman and stars David Johansen and John C. McGinley. It is based on the television series of the same name starring Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne that ran from 1961 to 1963.
Reprising their roles from the original series are Nipsey Russell, whose character Anderson is now a captain, and Al Lewis, whose officer Schnauser now spends his time watching TV reruns of The Munsters (in which Lewis and Gwynne also starred).
The film was originally produced as a musical comedy but released without the filmed musical interludes.
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Partnered in Car 54 are the amiable, unreliable Gunther Toody and the prim, proper Francis Muldoon, who wants to know, among other things, if Toody has been helping himself to free kebab from the neighborhood food vendors.Actors
David Johansen
(Officer Gunther Toody)
John C. McGinley
(Officer Francis Muldoon)
Fran Drescher
(Velma Velour)
Nipsey Russell
(Police Captain Dave Anderson)
Rosie O'Donnell
(Lucille Toody)
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