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Best Defense

Year:

1984

Duration:

94 min

Genres:

Comedy | War

IMDB rate:

3.5

Director:

Willard Huyck

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1984-07-20

Filming Locations: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $18,000,000

Opening Weekend: $7,872,297 (USA) (22 July 1984)

Gross: $19,265,302 (USA) Admissions 602,311 (West Germany)

Cast

Actor

Character

Gene Dynarski

Dudley Moore

Wylie Cooper

Eddie Murphy

Lieutenant T.M. Landry

Kate Capshaw

Laura Cooper

George Dzundza

Steve Loparino

Helen Shaver

Clair Lewis

Mark Arnott

Harvey Brank

Peter Michael Goetz

Frank Joyner

Tom Noonan

Frank Holtzman

David Rasche

Jeff the 'KBG' Agent

Paul Comi

Chief Agent

Darryl Henriques

Col. Zayas, San Salvador

Joel Polis

First Agent

John A. Zee

Col. McGuinn

Matthew Laurance

Ali, Landry's Tank Crew

Christopher Maher

Sayyid, Landry's Tank Crew

Lorry Goldman

Sol Rupp, Dynatechnics

Charles David Richards

Mugger (as Stoney Richards)

Tyler Tyhurst

American Captain

Eduardo Ricard

Capt. Garcia Vega, Honduras

William Marquez

Chief Padilla, Guatemala

Deborah Fallender

Toni

Raye Birk

Sonny, Dynatechnics

Ellen Crawford

Sonya, Dynatechnics

John Hostetter

Quirk, Dynatechnics

David Paymer

Kurly

Dennis Redfield

Specs

Jerry Hyman

Col. Kleinman

Hugo Stanger

Blevin

Tracey Ross

Arab Girl

Michael Scalera

Morgan Cooper, Wylie's Son

Rob Wininger

Lt. Chapin

Gary Bayer

Lubell

Ronald Salley

Transportation Captain

Paul Eiding

Tourist

Stephen Bradley

Deputy Director

Sanford Jensen

Second Engineer

Gerald Jann

Third Engineer

Jennifer Wallace

Waitress #1 - Casa Chihuahua

Renny Temple

Coffee Machine Mover

Ziporah Tzabari

Ancient Kuwaiti Woman

Gabi Amrani

Old Villager

Rozsika Halmos

FBI Seamstress

Diane Carter

Technician

Jake Dengel

Hotel Doorman

Billy Ray Sharkey

Radio Man

Burton Collins

Cameraman

Bill Geisslinger

Walkie-Talkie Agent

Yitzhak Ne'eman

Refugee Man (as Itzhak Bbi Neeman)

Jim Jansen

Lieutenant

Javier Grajeda

Fredie Gomez, Singer on TV

Patricia Pivaar

Gloria Webber, Ch. 6 News

Julie Ellis

Waitress #2

Lillian Müller

French Singer (as Yuliis Ruval)

Pamela Stonebrook

Singer, Rive Gauche Room

Elizabeth Reiko Kubota

Japanese Singer (as Elizabeth Kubota)

Rick Dees

Himself

Chuck Street

Himself

D. David Morin

TV Reporter (uncredited)

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Trivia

One of a number of 1980s war / military comedies. The films include Private Benjamin (1980), Stripes (1981), The Survivors (1983), Wrong Is Right (1982)_, Spies Like Us (1985), 1941 (1979), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Biloxi Blues (1988), Deal of the Century (1983), Up the Academy (1980), The Odd Angry Shot (1979) and To Be or Not to Be (1983).

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The film was made and released about a decade after its source novel "Easy and Hard Ways Out" by Robert Grossbach had been first published in 1974. The movie is the only ever filmed adaptation of a story by Grossbach.

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The name of the engineering company was "Dynatechnics Incorporated".

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Quotes

Lieutenant T.M. Landry: [On the tank he's driving] Who's the cocksucker who built this thing?

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Chief Padilla, Guatemala: Boom. Dead. Communista.

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