Hot Stuff

1979

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 1702 1.7K

police receiving of stolen goods scam pawnshop

Plot summary

When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.

Director

Dom DeLuise Photo
Dom DeLuise

Top cast

Richard Davalos Photo
Richard Davalos as Charles
Raymond Forchion Photo
Raymond Forchion as Holdup Man #1
Ossie Davis Photo
Ossie Davis as Captain John Geiberger
Jose Bahamonde Photo
Jose Bahamonde as Guitar Thief #2
480p.BluRay
801.37 MB
720*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
N/A
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

actors having fun

Miami police detectives Ernie Fortunato (Dom DeLuise) and Doug von Horne (Jerry Reed) are partners working stolen goods in a squad run by Captain John Geiberger (Ossie Davis). Sergeant Louise Webster (Suzanne Pleshette) has been brought in to fix their lack of convictions. Doug has the idea to take over a rundown pawn shop to film all the thieves fencing their stolen goods.This is a mildly humorous comedy directed by Dom DeLuise. It mostly relies on the loveable characters in the squad doing funny things. Quite frankly, it relies on the performers themselves more than anything else or the writing.
Reviewed by ksf-2 7 / 10

a heist in reverse...fun.

Pleshette, deluise, and a couple other coppers come up with a unique way to catch crooks. Instead of chasing after them, they open a down low pawn shop, and record the thugs fencing stolen goods! Which works great, until the local mafia don tries to muscle in. It's quite good! Pretty fast paced. Nothing too complicated. It's all light and fun. Directed by deluise himself. One of only two he directed.and if you check the cast list, deluise managed to get a whole lot of his family on the payroll. This was just after pleshette had finished with bob newhart.Deluise had already done blazing saddles and a bunch of his goofy 1970s film.
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