Main Cast: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher
Release Year: 1985
Country: US
Run Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. agency, Ross (Charles Durning) is his nemesis, and Maddy (Lori Singer) works for Cooper. After Richard the violinist is forced into the picture, Maddy fights off an attraction to the rather dull man, and complications introduce enough gadgetry to fill a James Bond movie, almost. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Edward Herrmann - Brown; Irving Metzman - Virdon; Tom Noonan - Reese; Gerritt Graham - Carson; David L. Lander - Stemple; Ritch Brinkley - Hulse; Frank Hamilton - Edgar; Ivy Bethune - Female Patient; Stephen Bradley - CIA Agent; Victoria Carroll - Receptionist; Julius J. Carry III - CIA Agent; Dortha Duckworth - Natalie; Patricia Gaul - Mrs. Brown; Art La Fleur - CIA Agent; Charles Levin - CIA Dentist; George Martin - Senate Chairman; Richard McGonagle - CIA Agent; Lisa Raggio - Reporter; Dan Resin - Man in Car; David Selberg - Reporter; David Ogden Stiers - The Conductor; Charles Walker - Reporter; Dan Ziskie - Young American; James Belushi - Morris; Noel de Souza - Officer on Dock; Damita Jo Freeman - Waitress; Tom Chiu - Dickie; C. Richard Clark - Cab Driver; Tom Rayhall - Sgt. at Arms; Mark Robman - Dentist; Sam Sako - Dock Worker; Jeff Ware - Prof. Chermenko
Credit
William Theiss - Costume Designer, Stan Dragoti - Director, O. Nicholas Brown - Editor, Bud Molin - Editor, Thomas Newman - Composer (Music Score), Byrd Holland - Makeup, Robert Mills - Makeup, Ric Sagliani - Makeup, Dean Edward Mitzner - Production Designer, Richard H. Kline - Cinematographer, Victor Drai - Producer, Jack Frost Sanders - Producer, Anne McCulley - Set Designer, Robert Klane - Screenwriter, Norman Steinberg - Screenwriter
