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Fletch Lives
- Director: Michael Ritchie
- Writer: Gregory McDonald; Leon Capetanos
- Producer: Bruce Bodner; Peter Douglas
CGiii Comment
Hollywood certainly knows how to flog a dying horse - they know how to put thumb-screws on a dead body - anything to get the last breath, the very last cent.
Same gags, same nonsense.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Ailing Los Angeles newspaper reporter Irvin "Fletch" Fletcher, in debt, inherits from a aunt "Bell Isle", a sprawling 80-acre Louisiana plantation estate, quits his job and moves east expecting to live like a Dixie king. But he failed to inspect the run-down inheritance, leaving him only a shabby mansion with a shifty caretaker instead of reliable staff. Having celebrated anyway with an attractive lawyer in bed, he wakes up finding her mysteriously murdered and himself jailed, soon to be bailed, as prime suspect. Undaunted by a neighborly lawyer's warning to leave town, he waves foxy real estate agent Becky Culpepper's persistent offer well above the apparent value from a third party and starts snooping why with Becky. That proves a dangerous activity for him and almost anybody around, everything pointing to local magnate Hamilton "Ham" Johnson and his 'Confederate' circle of friends; including TV preacher Jimmy Lee Farnsworth and a dodgy chemical plant.
Cast & Characters
Chevy Chase as Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher;
Hal Holbrook as Hamilton 'Ham' Johnson;
Julianne Phillips as Becky Culpepper;
R. Lee Ermey as Jimmy Lee Farnsworth;
Richard Libertini as Frank Walker;
Randall 'Tex' Cobb as Ben Dover;
Cleavon Little as Calculus Entropy;
George Wyner as Marvin Gillet;
Patricia Kalember as Amanda Ray Ross;
Geoffrey Lewis as KKK Leader;
Richard Belzer as Phil;
Phil Hartman as Bly Manager;
Titos Vandis as Uncle Kakakis;
Don Hood as Tom Barbour;
Dennis Burkley as Joe Jack