The Experts [Blu-ray]

Director: Dave Thomas Dave Thomas

Overview

SCTV alumnus Dave Thomas manned the megaphone for the direct-to-video Experts. John Travolta was between career highs when he agreed to appear in this anachronistic cold-war comedy. Travolta and Arye Gross play Travis and Wendell, a couple of vagabonds hired by Soviet spy Cameron Smith (Charles Martin Smith) to act as experts on the American lifestyle. It seems that Smith is in charge of one of those "typical American towns" constructed in the middle of the Soviet Union for espionage-training purposes (remember all those Red-baiting documentaries of the 1950s?) Under the influence of drugs, Travis and Wendell are relocated to the phony burg of Indian Springs, Nebraska (actually well within the Russian borders). They immediately begin indoctrinating their "American" neighbors in all the guilty pleasures of Yankee hedonism. Hardly a comedy classic, The Experts did produce one salutary by-product: it was on the set of this film that John Travolta met his future bride Kelly Preston, here cast as a peaches-and-cream Russian spy.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/09/2023
UPC:	0738329262716
Original Release:	1989
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	18,949

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Travolta	Actor
Arye Gross	Actor
Kelly Preston	Actor
Deborah Foreman	Actor
James Keach	Yuri
Charles Martin Smith	Cameron Smith
Jan Rubes	Actor
Mimi Maynard	Actor
Eve Brent	Actor
Rick Docommun	Actor
Steve Levitt	Actor
Brian Doyle-Murray	Jones
Tony Edwards	Actor
Rick Ducommun	Actor
Jack Ammon	Actor

Technical Credits

Nick Thiel

Jack Grossberg	Executive Producer
James Keach	Producer
Jonathan D. Krane	Executive Producer
Dave Thomas	Director
Nick Thiel	Screenwriter