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Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd star as the worlds most awful, bungling spies who are despatched on a spurious assignment to deflect attention from the real work of the secret agency. The two bungle their way into all sorts of trouble and find themselves working on a real case. The film is littered with cameos from famous actors and directors.
Spies Like Us is a 1985 American spy comedy film directed byJohn Landis, and starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, and DonnaDixon. The film presents the comic adventures of two novice intelligence agentssent to the Soviet Union. Originally written by Aykroyd and Dave Thomas to starAykroyd and John Belushi at Universal, the script went into turnaroundfollowing Belushis 1982 death and was later picked up by Warner Bros.,starring Aykroyd and Chase.
Partly filmed on location near Sognefjord in Norway asRussia and the Sahara as Pakistan,the film is a homage to the famous BobHope and Bing Crosby Road to… film series. Hope himself cameos in one scene.Other cameos include directors Terry Gilliam, Sam Raimi, CostaGavras, MartinBrest, Frank Oz, and Joel Coen, musician B. B. King and visual effects pioneerRay Harryhausen. Although contemporary reviews of the film were largelynegative, Spies Like Us was a financial success, grossing $77 million.
