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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1988 · directed by David Zucker · 86 min
25,451 feet · Prominence
361st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw69

Lifetime worldwide gross $152m, re-releases included; about $425m in 2026 money.

Rank766 of 11,051In 19889 of 173

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise82

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics82 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy65

Judged directly: Comedy landmark, endlessly quoted Nielsen.

Verdict65 of 100IMDb7.6 from 219kWikipedia61k views a monthAge38 years

Scored beside it · 414 of 4,039 films judged
65The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 69 praise 82 legacy 65averages 72, placing it at25,451 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Leslie Nielsen20,159 ftGeorge Kennedy18,367 ftRicardo Montalban18,213 ftPriscilla Presley18,207 ftO. J. Simpson17,939 ftMark Holton17,631 ft