Volunteers (1985) [R]

Release Date:
August 16, 1985

Original Title:
Volunteers

Alternate Titles:
Voluntarios
Volunteers - Alles hört auf mein Kommando

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
TriStar Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  IT: T  US: R 

Runtime: 107

Ready or not, here they come.

After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.

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ADR Editor:
Stan Gilbert
Mark P. Stoeckinger

Art Direction:
José Rodríguez Granada

Assistant Art Director:
Jorge Sainz

Assistant Sound Editor:
Lorna Anderson
Joe Gilbert

Associate Producer:
Theodore R. Parvin

Cableman:
Heriberto Cárdenas

Camera Operator:
Leo J. Napolitano

Casting:
Penny Ellers
Joyce Robinson

Dialect Coach:
Robert Easton

Director:
Nicholas Meyer

Director of Photography:
Ric Waite

Dolly Grip:
Salvador 'Apache' Serrano

Editor:
Steve Polivka
Ronald Roose

First Assistant Director:
Elie Cohn

Gaffer:
Carl Boles

Hairstylist:
Esperanza Gómez
Josefina Mendoza

Makeup Artist:
Alberto López

Makeup Designer:
Allan A. Apone

Makeup Supervisor:
Del Armstrong

Music Editor:
Else Blangsted
Jim Weidman

Negative Cutter:
Brian Ralph

Original Music Composer:
James Horner

Other:
Claude King

Producer:
Walter F. Parkes
Richard Shepherd

Production Design:
James L. Schoppe

Property Master:
Ray Mercer Jr.

Screenplay:
Ken Levine
David Isaacs

Sound Editor:
Terry Lynn Allen
Randy Kelley
Elliott Koretz
Dan M. Rich

Sound Mixer:
Claude Hitchcock

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Chris Jenkins
Robert Glass
Gary Alexander

Special Effects Coordinator:
Laurencio Cordero

Still Photographer:
Alfredo Ruvalcaba

Story:
Keith Critchlow

Stunt Coordinator:
BJ Davis

Stunts:
Kane Hodder
Denny Arnold
Wayne King Sr.
Rob King
John Barrett
Ellie Mite
Paul Staples
Alan Marcus
Dianne L. Wilson

Supervising Sound Editor:
Lon Bender
Wylie Stateman

Wigmaker:
Raúl Esquivel

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