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Armed and Dangerous is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Mark Lester released in USA on 15 august 1986 with John Candy
Armed and Dangerous (1986)
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Add to a movie listArmed and Dangerous is a 1986 American action-crime comedy film starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia and Meg Ryan. It was directed by Mark L. Lester and filmed on location in and around Los Angeles, California.
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Officer Frank Dooley (John Candy) of the LAPD is framed for the theft of a television set by two corrupt detectives (who Dooley had actually caught robbing an appliance store). He is dismissed from the force, but escapes criminal punishment at his day in court. The next case in the courtroom features hapless defense attorney Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) attempting to defend a Charles Manson-type white supremacist leader named Lawrence Lupik (Glenn Withrow), who threatens him with death should Kane fail to keep him out of prison. A fearful Kane reveals his ineptitude and the death threat to the judge (Stacy Keach, Sr.), who tells Kane that he will give Lupik "A sentence so long he won't even remember his own name, let alone yours" so long as Kane agrees to find another line of work with a "lot less responsibility".Actors
John Candy
(Frank Dooley)
Eugene Levy
(Norman Kane)
Robert Loggia
(Michael Carlino)
Kenneth McMillan
(Captain Clarence O'Connell)
Meg Ryan
(Maggie Cavanaugh)
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