Doctor Detroit (1983) 4.6
A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets. Director:Michael Pressman |
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Doctor Detroit (1983) 4.6
A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets. Director:Michael Pressman |
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| Dan Aykroyd | ... |
Clifford Skridlow /
Doctor Detroit
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| Howard Hesseman | ... |
Smooth Walker
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| Donna Dixon | ... |
Monica McNeil
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Lydia Lei | ... |
Jasmine Wu
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| T.K. Carter | ... |
Diavolo Washington
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| Lynn Whitfield | ... |
Thelma Cleland
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| Fran Drescher | ... |
Karen Blittstein
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John A. Maloney | ... |
Commodore
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Pershing P. Anderson | ... |
Stretch
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William Munchow | ... |
Professor Artel
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Ed Meekin | ... |
Professor Durant
(as Edward Meekin)
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| Hank Salas | ... |
Johnny
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Rudolph Kovar | ... |
Carson
(as Rudolf Kovar)
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Kate Murtagh | ... |
Mom
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| Peter Elbling | ... |
Guptor
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Clifford Skridlow teaches at a small Chicago college run by his father. Conned into managing four prostitutes by their pimp, who skips town to escape the mob boss known as Mom, Clifford draws on his course in medieval literature in his quest to save the women from Mom. Written by <rth@ece.arizona.edu>
DOCTOR DETROIT (1983) **1/2 Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon, Fran Drescher, TK Carter, George Furth, James Brown. Aykroyd has a field day as milquetoast college professor who unwittingly is enlisted by a pimp to assume the identity of a ganglord mack daddy as the eponymous not-to-be-trifled man about town. Frequently funny especially his tete a tete with his archenemy, Mom, in a junk yard: `Mom, I'm gonna rip off your head and s**t down your neck!' Brown's appearance livens things up with a neat, goofy dance spotlight for the antic Aykroyd