Police Academy (1984) [R]

Release Date:
March 22, 1984

Original Title:
Police Academy

Alternate Titles:
Academia de Polícia
Locademia de policía
Police Academy
Police Academy 1: What an Institution
Polisskolan
学警出更
金牌警校军

Genres:
Comedy | Crime

Production Companies:
The Ladd Company
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  BR: 12  DE: 16  DK: A  ES: 12  FI: K-16  FR: U|16|18  GB: 15  GR: 13  HU: 16  IE: 18  IT: T  KR: 15  NL: 14  PT: M/12  SE: 11  US: R 

Runtime: 97

Call them slobs. Call them jerks. Call them gross. Just don't call them when you're in trouble.

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

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ADR Editor:
Paul B. Clay

ADR Mixer:
Alan Holly
Don White

Additional Photography:
Robert Saad

Art Designer:
Drew Struzan

Assistant Accountant:
Lyn Lucibello

Assistant Camera:
Joachim Martin
Pat Williams

Assistant Editor:
Howard Heard

Assistant Sound Editor:
Dave Kulczycki

Best Boy Electric:
Tony Eldridge

Best Boy Grip:
Glen Goodchild

Boom Operator:
Steve Switzer

Camera Operator:
Peter Luxford

Carpenter:
Paul Theodore

Casting:
Fern Champion
Pamela Basker

Color Timer:
Robert Raring

Conductor:
Robert Folk

Construction Coordinator:
Neil Grocutt

Costume Design:
Christopher Ryan

Director:
Hugh Wilson

Director of Photography:
Michael D. Margulies

Editor:
Zach Staenberg
Robert Brown

Editorial Staff:
Terry Kelley
Ben Williams

Executive Producer:
Alan Ladd Jr.
Gareth Wigan

Extras Casting:
Peter Lavender

First Assistant Director:
Michael Zenon

Foley Artist:
Gary A. Hecker

Foley Editor:
Bob Rutledge

Foley Mixer:
Alan Holly

Gaffer:
Chris Holmes

Generator Operator:
David G. Todd

Hairstylist:
James D. Brown

Key Grip:
Ron Gillham

Location Manager:
Michael Brownstone

Makeup Artist:
Ken Brooke

Music Coordinator:
Paula Spang

Music Editor:
Douglas M. Lackey

Musician:
Larry Bunker
George Doering
Henry Sigismonti
Arnold Belnick
Richard Nash
Harris Goldman
Pamela Goldsmith
Ronald Langinger
Ronald Cooper
Gwenn Heller
Craig Huxley
Erno Neufeld
John Wittenberg
Ron Leonard
Buell Neidlinger
Mike Nowak
Graham Young
Chuck Domanico
Richard Perissi
Harry Shlutz
Tommy Johnson
Arthur Maebe
Lloyd Ulyate
John Winter
Bob Zimmitti
Michael Lang
Malcolm McNab
Peter Mercurio
Joe Porcaro
Jay Rosen
Vince De Rosa
Elizabeth Finch
Barbara Hunter
Sheridon Stokes
Harry Bluestone
Alan DeVeritch
Norman Carr
Drew Dembowski
Norman Herzburg
Frank Marocco
James Thatcher
Louise Di Tullio
Ken Watson
Denyse Buffum
Bob DiVall
Linn Subotnick
David Duke
Dominick Fera
Paula Hochhalter
George Roberts
Ian Underwood
Haim Shtrum
Robert Adcock
Murray Adler

Negative Cutter:
Donah Bassett

Orchestrator:
Robert Folk

Original Concept:
Paul Maslansky

Original Music Composer:
Robert Folk

Painter:
I.R. McEune
Serge Genitempo

Presenter:
Alan Ladd Jr.

Producer:
Paul Maslansky

Production Accountant:
Donald L. West

Production Assistant:
Sasha Maslansky
Benita Allen
Christopher Kroll

Production Coordinator:
Suzanne Lore

Production Design:
Trevor Williams

Production Manager:
James Margellos

Production Secretary:
Andrea Poulis

Production Sound Mixer:
David Lee

Property Master:
Chris Biden
John 'Frenchie' Berger

Publicist:
Patricia Johnson

Scenic Artist:
Guenter Bartlik

Scoring Mixer:
Dan Wallin
Robert Fernandez

Screenplay:
Hugh Wilson
Neal Israel
Pat Proft

Script Supervisor:
Penelope Hynam
Penny Hynam

Second Assistant Director:
Richard Flower
Allan Harmon
Rocco Gismondi

Set Decoration:
Steve Shewchuk

Set Production Assistant:
Curtis Carlin

Sound Assistant:
Ron Scelza

Sound Editor:
John M. Colwell
Stanley Paul
William Hooper

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Don MacDougall
Richard Tyler
John L. Mack

Special Effects:
David Neil Trifunovich
Roger Hansen

Special Effects Assistant:
Gene Grigg

Still Photographer:
Shin Sugino

Story:
Neal Israel
Pat Proft

Stunt Coordinator:
Joe Dunne

Stunt Double:
Dar Robinson
Todd Schroeder

Stunts:
Janet Brady
Wink Roberts
Denver Mattson
Dar Robinson
Buzz Bundy
Gary McLarty
Angie Reno
Debbie Kirby
Julius LeFlore
Ted Hanlan
Todd Schroeder
Joe Dunne
Gene Mack
Dwayne McLean
George Marshall Ruge
Branko Racki
F. Braun McAsh
Peter Cox
Carol Daniels
Marco Bianco
T.J. Scott
Celia Bond
Brent Meyer

Supervising Sound Editor:
Anthony Ippolito

Transportation Captain:
Craig S. Kohne

Transportation Coordinator:
Jim Kennedy

Wardrobe Assistant:
Linda Kemp
SJ Teasdale
Larry S. Wells

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