A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets.
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Cast
| 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 | |
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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) |
| Hank Salas | ... | Johnny | |
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Rudolph Kovar | ... | Carson (as Rudolf Kovar) |
| Kate Murtagh | ... | Mom | |
| 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>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
6 May 1983 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dr. Detroit See more »Filming Locations:
Biltmore Hotel - 506 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Edit
Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$3,295,722, 8 May 1983Gross USA:
$10,375,893Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$10,375,893Company Credits
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StereoColor:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Performed by James Brown
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Fran Drescher has said in her autobiography "Enter Whining" that the movie was expected to be a box-office hit, but it wasn't, by the time the film finished its run it had only made US $ 10.8 million from its budget outlay of US $ 8 million. See more »Goofs
Smooth books a one-way flight to the Cook Islands, then local service to Roratonga. In fact the Cook Islands international airport is *on* Roratonga. See more »Crazy Credits
At the end of the credits, we see "Coming soon: Doctor Detroit II, the Wrath of Mom." See more »Soundtracks
Get Up Offa That Thing / Doctor DetroitPerformed by James Brown
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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