Detective School Dropouts is a 1986 action comedy film co-starring and written by David Landsberg and Lorin Dreyfuss for The Cannon Group.

He reads detective novels all the time, so that his distraction causes him to have various misadventures that repeatedly cost him his jobs.

The school is located in a run-down house and the owner Paul has all kinds of debts with various creditors.

Instead of getting a decent education, Donald, the only detective candidate at the school, is financially exploited and has to take part in Paul's fraudulent actions to reduce his debts.

Caterina can give the two unsuspecting Americans a message to deliver to their cousin Mario Zanetti at the airport so that the wedding can be stopped.

Paul and Donald drive to the airport, have to steal two passports to follow Mario Zanetti on the plane.

It is noted for its low-budget production values, cheesy '80's synth soundtrack, and being the only film released from the Cannon Group to have lost money at the box office.