Best Defense

Best Defense (1984)

Unfortunately, they're both on our side.

  • Genre: Comedy, Action
  • Release Date: 1984-07-20
  • User Rating: 4.2/10 from 107 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 34min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Paramount
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director:
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From 107 Ratings
3.8 29 29/100

Summary

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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    Writing Willard Huyck Screenplay
    Directing Willard Huyck Director
    Writing Gloria Katz Screenplay
    Production Gloria Katz Producer
    Production Dianne Crittenden Casting
    Art Bo Welch Art Direction
    Camera Donald Peterman Director of Photography
    Costume & Make-Up Kristi Zea Costume Design
    Production Robert Latham Brown Unit Production Manager
    Art Peter Jamison Production Design
    Sound Frank E. Warner Supervising Sound Editor
    Sound Robin Gregory Sound Mixer
    Editing Sidney Wolinsky Editor
    Sound Patrick Williams Original Music Composer
    Writing Robert Grossbach Novel
    Art R. Chris Westlund Set Decoration
    Production Austen Jewell Unit Production Manager
    Editing Martin Cohen First Assistant Editor
    Sound Richard Stone Music Editor
    Crew Everett Creach Stunt Coordinator
    Sound Gregg Landaker Sound Re-Recording Mixer
    Sound Rick Kline Sound Re-Recording Mixer
    Sound Donald O. Mitchell Sound Re-Recording Mixer
    Sound Gary S. Gerlich Sound Effects Editor
    Camera Elliott Marks Still Photographer
    Sound Pat Suraci Boom Operator
    Directing Louise Jaffe Script Supervisor
    Sound Victoria Martin Sound Effects Editor
    Camera Laurie Ridley Still Photographer
    Crew Richard Johnson Special Effects