Movie Marathon: Comedy Crime Classics

Fletch:Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best as ‘Fletch’, a newspaper reporter who changes his identity more often than his underwear. While working on a drug expose, he stumbles onto a scam that gets him up to his by-line in murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. For this ace newsman, it’ll be the story of the year, if he can only stay alive till the deadline.Fletch Lives:Chevy Chase returns to the screen as reckless reporter Fletch. This time he ventures to a sprawling 80-acre Louisiana plantation which Fletch inherits from his aunt. Trouble begins when a lovely attorney mysteriously turns up dead, a neighborly lawyer warns him to leave town and a ravishing real estate agent comes calling with a persistent offer. Fletch must unravel the reason for the mad land scramble with his trademark bag of hilarious disguises in this fast-moving comedy.Dragnet:This is the city… and only Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks can save it in this hilarious box-office blockbuster that pays homage to the famed original police drama of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. Aykroyd is at his comedic best as the namkesake nephew of Detective Sgt. Joe Friday. Like his uncle he’s a blue suited, by-the-rules cop who reluctantly joins forces with his footloose partner Pep Streebek (Hanks) to rescue the City of Angels from the machinations of a power-mad Reverend and corrupt Police Commissioner. And those are ‘just the facts’ of this hysterically funny action comedy.