1987 comedy film directed by Tom Mankiewicz
Dragnet is a 1987 American buddy cop parody-slapstick comedy film directed and co-written by Tom Mankiewicz in his directorial debut. Starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, the film is based on the radio and television crime drama of the same name. The screenplay, both a parody of and homage to the long-running television series, was written by Aykroyd, Mankiewicz and Alan Zweibel. The original music score is by Ira Newborn.
Aykroyd plays Joe Friday, nephew of the original series protagonist played by Jack Webb, while Hanks plays Pep Streebek, his new partner. Harry Morgan reprises his role from the 1967–70 television revival and 1966 television film as Bill Gannon, the original Friday's partner, now a captain and Friday and Streebek's boss.
Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.