This one was on a lot throughout the early '80s. It's quaint and commonplace now, but the concept of closed-circuit surveillance video was new at the time, as was home-video equipment. That makes the movie a little antiquated now, but watching it now brings bak great memories of seeing video equipment at the small studio at the Group W building, and then the Hill-Top Pawn Shop, both on K Street.
A group of Florida cops go undercover, using an old run-down pawn shop as a front to buy stolen goods, but secretly video-taping the sleazy and shifty characters who come in. Alongside nutty guys selling chickens and teeny harmonicas, they also run into crooked cops, crazed gun dealers, and the local mobsters. Oh yeah, and the part everyone remembers: Dom DeLuise smoking a joint (offered by an elderly couple who remind me of the Howells from Gilligan's Island), collapsing in laughter, getting the munchies, and tearing into his partners' lunches outside. Even the dog biscuits!
The cast also includes Jerry Reed, Suzanne Pleshette, Ossie Davis, and Luis Avalos. Sad to say that they've all since passed away within recent years. Still, a fun, simple, good-time movie...the kind you just don't see anymore.
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