Ron Howard's not the first director you think of when you hear 'comedy about a morgue-based prostitution business,' but 40 years ago, Night Shift made it a reality. Here's Craig D. Lindsey on the oddball romp:
45 years ago, a Roger Corman-produced car-chase comedy where he was one-half of an eloping young couple—and getting chased down by people looking to stop it. But 40 years ago this month, he directed the studio comedyThe first movie he worked on with producer and longtime partner Brian Grazer, Howard got hisco-star Henry Winkler to star as Chuck Lumley, a former Wall Street broker who’s now working as a nighttime city morgue attendant.
Chuck becomes concerned for Belinda and her business dealings, which start getting rough after her pimp—named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jones—is killed by two thuggish associates . When he tells Bill about it, Bill gets the idea that they should be “lovebrokers,” serving as business managers for Belinda and her crew of pimpless streetwalkers. A reluctant Chuck goes along with the plan, and he and Bill run this business out of the morgue.
For some reason, comedies about prostitution were all the rage in the early ‘80s. The movie version of the Broadway musical, starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, was also in theaters around that time. The following summer, Tom Cruise became a star as a kid who turns his parents’ house into a brothel inDoctor Detroitwas based on a true story: In 1976, two city employees and a laborer were charged with operating a call-girl ring out of a morgue.
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