Hanky Panky is a 1982 American comedy thriller Metrocolor film directed by Sidney Poitier, starring Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner.

[4] However, Pryor chose not to participate and Gilda Radner was brought in as a replacement, with the script rewritten for her role.

[5] Locations include Parc East,[6] Knickerbocker Club, Madison Square Garden, Roosevelt Hotel, Ware Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, New England Aquarium, and Grand Canyon National Park.

Vincent Canby, writing in The New York Times, gave the film a mixed review, saying it "is apt to leave you far less exhilarated than exhausted.

"[9] Variety wrote: "a limp romantic suspense comedy which manages to be neither romantic, suspenseful nor funny...appears to be an attempt to duplicate the classy thrills of North by Northwest..."[10] A $2.50 paperback novelization of the screenplay was published by Pinnacle Books, in July 1982 ,[11][12] by Leslie Jarreau, possibly a pseudonym.