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20 July 1984 (USA)
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Unfortunately, they're both on our side. more
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Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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Best Defence (UK) (poster title)
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94 min
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Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
UK:15 (DVD rating) |
Australia:R |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Finland:K-12 |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:12 |
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There was a scene shot with both Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy together, but was edited from the final cut.
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Chief Padilla, Guatemala:
Boom. Dead. Communista.
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References Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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SILVER BELLS
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On a dull evening at home recently I saw this was showing on ITV2, and I settled down to enjoy what I thought would be a reasonably amusing comedy.
Oh dear.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were one of the greatest ever comedy acts. Peter Cook was a hilarious solo act. Dudley Moore was a brilliant musician...but NOT a good solo comedy player.
All Mr Moore's films seem to have him in an ill fitting three piece suit and horrible seventies hairstyle, running manically around hotel corridors and swearing a lot. This film is no exception.
It just didn't have any really funny moments. Mr Murphy (whose scenes were slotted in later) had one or two funny lines but that was about it.
If Saddam Hussein got the idea of invading Iraq from this film, that would be a good reason to ban it!