Rating: PG
Genre: Crime
Theatrical Release: 08/09/1986(USA)
Release Date: 12/06/2005
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar

Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved with a pack of gangsters. Spence is a two-bit actor who is at a racetrack location with his pal Dennis, when he overhears two small-time thugs, Wayne "Turnip" Parragella (Richard Mulligan) and Maurice "Binky" Drundza (Stuart Margolin), talk about doping a horse set to run a race. It turns out that Turnip and Binky are under orders to carry out the dastardly scheme by their underworld boss Tony Pazzo (Paul Sorvino). When Spence and Dennis are found out, they find themselves pursued all over the Los Angeles area by an angry Tony Pazzo mob in an ever-escalating series of races and chases, crashes and smashes, and shouting and screaming.

~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Ted Danson - Spence Holden
Howie Mandel - Dennis Powell
Richard Mulligan - Wayne Turnip Farragalla
Stuart Margolin - Maurice "Binky" Dzundza
Maria Conchita Alonso - Claudia Pazzo
Jennifer Edwards - Ellen Frankenthaler
Paul Sorvino - Tony Pazzo

Production:
Blake Edwards - Director
Tony Adams - Producer
Henry Mancini - Composer
John F. Burnett Robert Pergament - Editor
Blake Edwards Norman Steinberg - Screen Writer
Stuart A. Reiss - Set Designer
Philippe Gerard - Choreography
Harry Stradling, Jr. - Cinematographer
Pat Norris - Costume Designer
Jonathan D. Krane - Executive Producer
Larry Williams - Featured Music
Rick Sharp - Makeup
Rodger Maus - Production Designer
Anne Boston - Songwriter
Antoine Domino - Songwriter
Bob Crewe - Songwriter
Bob Gaudio - Songwriter
Bobby Sandstrom - Songwriter
Darryl Littlejohn - Songwriter
Dave Bartholomew - Songwriter
Dennis Lambert - Songwriter
Eric Douglas - Songwriter
George Weiss - Songwriter
Huge Peretti - Songwriter
John E. Garnett - Songwriter
John F. Calder - Songwriter
John Lan - Songwriter
Keith Burston - Songwriter
Larry Huff - Songwriter
Luigi Creatore - Songwriter
Michael Price - Songwriter
Nick Jameson - Songwriter
Richard Page - Songwriter
Robert Elsey - Songwriter
Roy Hayes - Songwriter
Steve Farris - Songwriter
Steve George - Songwriter
William Burton - Songwriter
William Linton - Songwriter
Roy Downey - Special Effects
Joe Dunne - Stunts
David Bryant - Songwriter

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