Columbia. Director Mark L. Lester; Producer Brian Grazer, James Keach; Writer Harold Ramis, Peter Torokvei; Camera Fred Schuler Editor Michael Hill, Daniel Hanley, George Pedugo; Music Bill Meyers Art David L. Snyder
John Candy
Eugene Levy
Robert Loggia
Kenneth McMillan
Meg Ryan
Brion James
Armed and Dangerous is a broad farce slightly elevated by the presence of John Candy and Eugene Levy.
Story [by Brian Grazer, Harold Ramis and James Keach] functions as little more than a fashion show for Candy. The piece de resistance is Candy in a blue tuxedo with a ruffled shirt that makes his enormous bulk look like a wrapped Christmas present.
Candy plays one of LA's finest until he's wrongfully kicked off the force for corruption. He winds up at Guard Dog Security where he teams with shyster lawyer Levy on a new career. Company, it turns out, is under the thumb of the mob headed by union honcho Robert Loggia.
It's all pretty basic stuff delivered with a minimum of imagination.
(Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1986. Running time: 88 MIN.
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