The Naked Truth (1992)

User Rating:

1.7/10   

Director:

Nico Mastorakis

Writers:

Kirk Ellis (writer)
Nico Mastorakis (screenplay)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss...

Plot Keywords:

Beauty Pageant | Cross Dressing | Undercover | Female Nudity | Spoof

Cast

Robert Caso	...	Frank I and Ethel
Kevin Schon	...	Frank II and Mirabelle
Courtney Gibbs	...	Misty Blue / Joanne
Herb Edelman	...	Rupert Hess (as Herbert Edelman)
Brian Thompson	...	Bruno
M. Emmet Walsh	...	Garcia / Gesundheim
Billy Barty	...	The Bell Boy
David Birney	...	Fed. #2
Alex Cord	...	Herskovitz
Yvonne De Carlo	...	Mrs. Hess
Erik Estrada	...	Gonzales
Norman Fell	...	The Dentist
Lou Ferrigno	...	Fed. #1
Zsa Zsa Gabor	...	The Stewardess
Richard Gautier	...	The Bartender (as Dick Gautier)

Also Known As:

Glitch II: The Naked Truth (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

Germany:92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Omega Entertainment

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Casablanca (1942)

Soundtrack:

Devil In Her Kiss

But I thought Erik Estrada would NEVER be in a bad movie...

You know a film is a flop when its sole selling point is the inclusion of cameos by several C-list actors. It's the last resort when a movie maker knows they have a stinker on their hands with nothing resembling an actual plot or humor. That's the naked truth folks.

This piece of celluloid is what you get when you take "Bosom Buddies" and "The Naked Gun" and have them stripped of everything funny. This is the type of film where a character says "Black Russian" to a bartender and the white bartender responds saying that he's just "really tan". Was that ever funny...ever? This is the type of film where two gentlemen are in side-by-side helicopters and one guy asks the other if he has some Grey Poupon. This is the type of film where some guy ignores a bunch of good-looking women in skimpy swimsuits and instead gets all hot and bothered by some dude in drag.

In short, this is the type of film that doesn't have even a shred of originality and would be destroyed if we lived in a civilized society. I can understand the likes of Bubba Smith, Lou Ferrigno and Zsa Zsa Gabor showing up in junk like this. The saddest moment for me, however, was seeing the wonderfully talented Yvonne De Carlo make an appearance. She deserved to be given more roles in the '90s but not in trash such as "The Naked Truth". 1/10