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25 November 1983 (Australia) moreTagline:
He's making the world safe for insanity.Plot:
A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Silly comedy moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dan Aykroyd | ... | Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit | |
| Howard Hesseman | ... | Smooth Walker | |
| Donna Dixon | ... | Monica McNeil | |
| Lydia Lei | ... | Jasmine Wu | |
| T.K. Carter | ... | Diavolo Washington | |
| Lynn Whitfield | ... | Thelma Cleland | |
| Fran Drescher | ... | Karen Blittstein | |
| John A. Maloney | ... | Commodore | |
| Pershing P. Anderson | ... | Stretch | |
| William Munchow | ... | Professor Artel | |
| Ed Meekin | ... | Professor Durant (as Edward Meekin) | |
| Hank Salas | ... | Johnny | |
| Rudolph Kovar | ... | Carson (as Rudolf Kovar) | |
| Kate Murtagh | ... | Mom | |
| Peter Elbling | ... | Guptor |
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The Illinois license plate on Dan Aykroyd's car is BDR-529; this is the same plate that was on the Bluesmobile in The Blues Brothers (1980). moreQuotes:
Clifford Skridlow: [waking from a nightmare where his mother becomes a prostitute] NO! I will NOT sell my mother!Margaret Skridlow: [walking in on him] Of course, not dear. But it's a sweet thought.
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Dan Ackroyd in his prime essays the role of DOCTOR DETROIT, a comic superpimp. In his regular life, Doctor Detroit is a meek college professor right out of a Golden Era slapstick comedy like Cary Grant in "Bringing Up Baby" or Gary Cooper in "Ball of Fire" or even Danny Kaye in the remake, "A Song Is Born." Why and how the professor turns into this larger-than-life, scratchy-voiced pimp is what the movie is all about. And in the end, the Doctor must face down Mom, a notorious gangster. Problem with the movie is Ackroyd was not scheduled to play the role. If memory serves, it was John Belushi, who had died rather suddenly. So Ackroyd steps in to save the day, except he simply isn't funny as the Doctor. He is fine as the professor, however. Ackroyd's soon-to-be, real-life wife Donna Dixon is his love interest.