The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 English-language Comedy Crime motion picture written by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Pat Proft and Robert Locash. The movie is directed by David Zucker and Peter Segal and produced by Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker under the banner of Zucker in collaboration with Abrahams and Zucker and David Zucker. Incompetent police detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. The naked gun: from the files of police squad! features Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O. J. Simpson, George Kennedy, Ed Williams, Ricardo Montalban and Robert Buckingham. The movie is based on Police Squad! by David Zucker Jim Abrahams Jerry Zucker. The music was composed by Ira Newborn. Cinematography was done by Robert M. Stevens and editing by Michael Jablow , Christopher Greenbury, James R. Symons and James R. Symons. The movie has a running time of 253 minutes. It was released on 2nd December 1988. The Film was successful at box office. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! was made on a budget of $12 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $78 million. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Paramount Pictures.