Best Defense
(1984)

Unfortunately, they're both on our side.

Released: 1984-07-20

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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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Dudley Moore

as Wylie Cooper

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Eddie Murphy

as Lieutenant T.M. Landry

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Kate Capshaw

as Laura Cooper

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George Dzundza

as Steve Loparino

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Helen Shaver

as Clair Lewis

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Pamela Stonebrook

as Singer, Rive Gauche Room

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Tom Noonan

as Frank Holtzman

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Tracey Ross

as Arab Girl

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Elizabeth Reiko Kubota

as Japanese Singer

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Paul Comi

as Chief Agent

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Gloria Katz

Screenplay

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Donald Peterman

Director of Photography

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Patrick Williams

Original Music Composer

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Peter Jamison

Production Design

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Rick Kline

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Victoria Martin

Sound Effects Editor

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Austen Jewell

Unit Production Manager

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Pat Suraci

Boom Operator

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Richard Stone

Music Editor

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Gary S. Gerlich

Sound Effects Editor

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Louise Jaffe

Script Supervisor

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Donald O. Mitchell

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Bo Welch

Art Direction

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Everett Creach

Stunt Coordinator

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