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Release year: 1985

Storyline

A socially-inept man lies his way into the police believing he's a high-rolling drug smuggler in exchange for money and a holiday. Unfortunately for him, a very real drug deal is happening at the very same place.

Top credits

Directors

Peter Richardson

Writers

Cast

Adrian Edmondson — Dennis Carter
Jennifer Saunders — Lesley Reynolds
Peter Richardson — Harvey Duncan
Robbie Coltrane — Det. Sgt. Troy

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Did you know

• A review segment on this movie on the BBC One program "Film" in the UK (then hosted by Barry Norman), when it had just been released there in 1985, showed behind-the-scenes footage of the production during the sequence in the Anchor Inn pub--a sequence that can only be viewed today in the original '80s-release VHS and laserdisc versions from CBS/Fox. Several of the cast members were interviewed, some of them in character or satirically, and footage of filming was shown, including a scene actually cut from the theatrical version, where Jim approaches Dennis, Harvey and Lesley at their table regarding another drug deal (this leads into the sequence where he is soon after found murdered by Dennis, which is still present in all versions). This cut scene has never surfaced anywhere else. Also shown is an extension of the scene in which Lesley tells a worried Dennis, "If you don't watch it, you'll go down like the rest of them." She quickly adds, "Kiss me," and pulls him in for a kiss. This was also cut from the theatrical version prior to release and has never surfaced. At the end of the review on "Film", Barry Norman makes mention of "The Supergrass 2" as being in development. Obviously, this project never eventuated.

• The original theatrical version of this film can no longer be seen today. Although originally released intact and uncut in the UK and several other countries in the mid-1980s on VHS (and laserdisc in the UK), the film was extensively cut by the distributor for the first US VHS release for an unknown reason. Incredibly, the later mid-'90s re-release of the film on VHS in the UK copied most of these cuts (but retained some of the scenes missing from the US release), again for an unknown reason, as did the following (and to date, only) DVD release. Second-hand copies of the original, uncut version can usually be sourced online, but these are only on PAL-signal VHS, or the aforementioned laserdisc. It is unknown if the film was released in its original form in the US for its theatrical run in 1988.

• Film debut of Dawn French.