Best Defense (1984)
Best Defense (1984)
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Plot.
Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same.
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Cast & Crew.
Dudley Moore
Wylie Cooper
Eddie Murphy
Lieutenant T.M. Landry
Kate Capshaw
Laura Cooper
George Dzundza
Steve Loparino
Helen Shaver
Clair Lewis
Pamela Stonebrook
Singer, Rive Gauche Room
Mark Arnott
Harvey Brank
David Paymer
Kurly
Peter Michael Goetz
Frank Joyner
Tracey Ross
Arab Girl
Tom Noonan
Frank Holtzman
Elizabeth Reiko Kubota
Japanese Singer
David Rasche
Jeff the 'KBG' Agent
Paul Comi
Chief Agent
Willard Huyck
Director
Robert Grossbach
Writer
Gloria Katz
Writer
Bo Welch
Art Direction
Patrick Williams
Composer
Kristi Zea
Costume Design
Donald Peterman
Cinematographer
Robert Latham Brown
Unit Production Manager
Sidney Wolinsky
Editor
Dianne Crittenden
CastingDirector
Peter Jamison
ProductionDesigner
Frank E. Warner
Supervising Sound Editor
Robin Gregory
Sound Mixer
R. Chris Westlund
Set Decoration
Austen Jewell
Unit Production Manager
Martin Cohen
First Assistant Editor
Richard Stone
Music Editor
Everett Creach
Stunt Coordinator
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Details.
Release DateJuly 20, 1984
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Content RatingR
Budget$18,000,000
Box Office$19,265,302
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Wiki.
Best Defense is a 1984 American action comedy film, starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. The original music score was composed by Patrick Williams. It was released by Paramount Pictures.The film follows the lives of two different characters, who never interact. One of the two sub-plots involves an engineer who tries to develop a new gyroscope for tanks, and eventually uses the design plans of a murdered competitor. The other subplot involves a tank commander who accidentally wanders into a war zone while trying to navigate a poorly designed tank.
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