Best Defense

1984 R 1h 34m 3.8

A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.

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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Info about Best Defense

Studio(s): Paramount, Cinema Group Ventures

Originally Released: United States on Jul 20, 1984

Box Office Gross: $19,265,302.00

Budget: $18,000,000.00

Genres: Comedy, War