Spies Like Us [1985]

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1985
Running Times: 102 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: 70mm 6-Track Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: AAR Films / Warner Bros.
Executive Producer: Bernie Brillstein
Producers: George Folsey Jr, Brian Grazer
Associate Producers: Leslie Belzberg, Sam Williams
Production Manager: Claude Hudson
Production Supervisor: Dan Allingham
Production Coordinator: Marlene Butland

SCRIPT
Script: Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Story: Dan Aykroyd, Dave Thomas

DIRECTION
Director: John Landis
2nd Unit Director: David Garfath
1st Assistant Director: Dusty Symonds
2nd Assistant Director: Gareth Tandy
3rd Assistant Director: Nick Heckstall-Smith

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robert Paynter
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Brian West
Camera Operators: Chic Anstiss, John Palmer, Kenneth J. Withers
1st Assistant 2nd Camera: Martin Kenzie
Clapper Loader: Bob Bridges
2nd Unit Clapper Loader: Simon Mills
Gaffers: Michael McDermott, John May
Best Boy: John Sullivan
Colour Timer: Bob Noland
Stills: Keith Hamshere
Cameras and Lenses: Panavision

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Malcolm Campbell
Assistant Editors: Andrew MacRitchie, Anna Ksiecopolska, Lisa Zeno Churgin, Margaret Adachi, Pattye Rogers
Negative Cutter: Donah Bassett

MUSIC
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Songs: Paul McCartney [Spies Like Us]; Sammy Cahn, Vernon Duke [I'll Be Loving You]; Peter Aykroyd, Jon Tiven [Rock the House Down]; Jimmy King, Ben Cauley, Carl Cunningham, James Alexander, Ronnie Caldwell [Soul Finger]
Songs Performed By: Paul McCartney [Spies Like Us]; Peter Aykroyd [Rock the House Down]; The Bar-Kays [Soul Finger]
Songs Produced By: Paul McCartney, Phil Ramone, Hugh Padgham [Spies Like Us]
Orchestrator: Christopher Palmer
Score Mixer: Dan Wallin
Music Editor: Kathy Durning

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Ivan Sharrock
Boom Operator: Don Banks
Re-Recording Mixers: Bob Glass, Don Digirolamo, Robert Knudson
Supervising Sound Editor: Charles L. Campbell
Sound Editors: Chuck Neely, Howard Nieman, Jerry Stanford, Larry Carow, Richard C. Franklin, Samuel C. Crutcher
Supervising ADR Editor: Larry Singer
Foley: Taj Soundworks

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Frank Griffin, Pauline Heys
Hair: Carole Bennett, Stephanie Kaye
Costume Designer: Deborah Nadoolman
Wardrobe Supervisor: Sue Wain

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Brian Johnson
Special Effects Technicians: Barry Whitrod, Dave Knowles, David Beavis, David H. Watkins, Paul Knowles, Tony Fox, Tony Phelan

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Derek Meddings
Matte Painter: Ray Caple
Model Maker Supervisor: Terry Reed
Model Unit Gaffer: Michael McDermott
Visual Effects Photography: Paul Wilson
Visual Effects Camera Operator: John Morgan
Visual Effects 1st Assistant Camera: Jonathan Taylor
Laser Pulse: Cinema Research Corporation
Titles and Opticals [UK]: Optical Film Effects Ltd
Titles and opticals [USA]: Modern Film Effects

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Terry Ackland-Snow, Peter Murton
Supervising Art Director: Terry Ackland-Snow
Construction Manager: John Paterson
Draughtsman: Kevin Phipps

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Pamela Carlton
Production Accountant: Janet L. Wattles
Horse Master: Greg Powell
Publicist: Susan d'Arcy
Russian Language Advisor: Russian Roulette Ltd

LOCATIONS
Locations: Lancaster, California, USA; Morocco; Norway
Studio: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Location Managers: Nigel Goldsack, Peter Elford, Rufus Andrews, Stuart Neumann

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Paul Weston
Stunts: Paul Weston, Abdelkader Bouchafra, Abderrazak El Moustaghit, Alan Chuntz, B.J. Worth, Brahim Khabba, Clive Curtis, Colin Skeaping, D. Boyd-Phillips, David Forman, Gerard Naprous, Jason White, Jim Handbury, Ken Buckle, Lex Milloy, Malcolm Weaver, Mike De Luna, Mohamed El Baz, Mohamed El Mansour, Mohamed El Moustaghit, Mohamed Sedghini, Nick Wilkinson, P. Eastwood, Peter Brace, Reg Harding, Rocky Taylor, Stuart Fell, Terry Cade, Terry Forestal

CASTING
Casting [USA]: Marion Dougherty
Casting [Europe]: Debbie McWilliams

CAST
Chevy Chase [Emmett Fitz?Hume]
Dan Aykroyd [Austin Millbarge]
Steve Forrest [General Sline]
Donna Dixon [Karen Boyer]
Bruce Davison [Ruby]
Bernie Casey [Colonel Rhumbus]
William Prince [Keyes]
Tom Hatten [General Miegs]
Frank Oz [test monitor]
Charles McKeown [Jerry Hadley]
James Daughton [Bob Hodges]
Jim Staahl [Bud Schnelker]
Vanessa Angel, Svetlana Plotnikova, Bjarne Thomsen, Sergei Rousakov, Garrick Dombrovski [Russian rocket crew]
Terry Gilliam [Dr Imhaus]
Costa Gavras, Seva Novgorodtsev [Tadzhik highway patrol]
Stephen Hoye [Captain Hefling]
Ray Harryhausen [Dr Marston]
Mark Stewart [Ace Tomato courier]
Sean Daniel [Ace Tomato driver]
Jeff Harding [Fitz?Hume's associate]
Heidi Sorenson [Fitz?Hume's supervisor]
Margo Random, Douglas Lambert [reporters]
Christopher Malcolm [jumpmaster]
Terrance Conder [soldier 1]
Matt Frewer [soldier 2]
Tony Cyrus [The Khan]
Gusti Bogok [Dr La Fong]
Derek Meddings [Dr Stinson]
Robert Paynter [Dr Gill]
Bob Hope [himself]
Gurdial Sira [The Khan's brother]
Joel Coen, Sam Raimi, Martin Brest [drive?in security]
Michael Apted, B.B. King, Larry Cohen [Ace Tomato agents]
Ricco Ross, Richard Sharpe, Stuart Milligan, Sally Anlauf [W.A.M.P. technicians]
John Daveikis, Laurence Bilzerian, Richard Kruk [Russian border guards]
Heather Henson, Erin Folsey [teenage girls]
Bob Swaim [Special Forces commander]
Edwin Newman [himself]
Nancy Gair [student - uncredited]

Two office-bound CIA agents, Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge, are desperate for something more interesting to do. But no-one is more surprised than they when they are chosen to go on a mission to save the world from nuclear disaster. En route to Siberia, they are pursued by Russian agents and come to realise that they are bait for foreign forces to distract them away from the real spies.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.
Laserdisc Distributor: Warner Home Video [11533]
DVD Distributor: Warner Home Video [16885]

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Finland
Rating: K-12

Norway
Rating: 12

Sweden
Rating: 11

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

1985
December
6: USA - theatrical release

1986
February
7: Sweden - theatrical release

March
21: Finland - theatrical release

May
8: Norway - theatrical release

July
23: France - theatrical release

September
11: West Germany - theatrical release

1998
November
10: USA - DVD release [Warner Home Video [16885]]

2002
June
2: USA - television broadcast [on KPTV]
4: UK - television broadcast [on Sky One]
6: UK - television broadcast [on Sky Moviemax 1]

With spies like these who needs enemies?

Spióni jako my - Czechoslovakian title
Spione wie wir - German title
Espías como nosotros - Spanish title
Mitäs me vakoojat - Finnish title
Drôles d'espions - French title
Spie come noi - Italian title
Szpiedzy tacy jak my - Polish title
Spioner är vi allihopa - Swedish title

SEE ALSO
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [1964]

MAGAZINES

Cinema 28 August 1986 [Germany]
review

Premičre July 1986 p.7 [France]
review [by Jean-Philippe Guerand]

KEYWORDS

spies; secret agents; cis; russia; siberia; military; nuclear weapons; rockets