A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.
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- TriviaHarold Ramis executive produced the film but asked to have his name removed from both the producer and screenwriter credits because he did not like the final cut of the film. Only his producer credit was removed.
- GoofsThe gun claimed to be a .50 caliber, is actually a .454 Casull.
- Quotes
Norman Kane: [17:30] That's it? Just like that, huh?
Maggie Cavanaugh: Mr. Kane, there are only two things that you have to remember - never fall asleep where anyone can see you and make sure your name is very clearly marked on your lunch.
Norman Kane: Well, I can handle that.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 100 Years of Comedy (1997)
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A comedy that is okay with flashes of brilliance.
This comedy at times was just your average mediocre comedy that presented nothing really new. Still at other times it really got a person laughing good as Candy and Levy were a pretty good comedy tandem. This one has Candy as a former police officer framed and kicked off the force and Levy as a very bad defense attorney. In fact, the scene where his ineptness is displayed is one of the best scenes in the movie as he must defend what looks like a Charles Manson type of criminal, a guy so bad the police found things in the place he lived made of human hair. Both men end up trying to find work as security guards in a company with a very fair and good union, well not really but this too makes for one of the funnier scenes in the movie. Well they end up sort of messing up on their first night on the job and get some really bad assignments after that as they have to guard a trash dump and a toxic waste dump, two places not really known as being places people wish to break into. Well they figure something is up and they start to unravel a conspiracy, which still makes for an okay film, but I almost wish they just continued to have misadventures as security guards. As I have said though there are a couple of good scenes even during the unfolding of the diabolical plot as a scene in a sex store as Candy keeps needing quarters to think is good and the whole thing with him and the trucker is rather good too. So all in all this is a good comedy featuring a rather good duo, to bad the only other movie I know they were in together was the bizarre Cannonball run sequel "Speed Zone".
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- Armed & Dangerous
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- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,945,534
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,348,276
- Aug 17, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $15,945,534
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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