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Les Patterson Saves the World (1987)
Directed by George T. Miller
“While Diplomats dither & Presidents procrastinate...”
Comedy · 1h 38m
Fat middle aged 24/7 drunkard Les Patterson represents Australia at the UN where his fart literally incinerates an Arab ambassador. Patterson is reassigned to the Middle East so he can be tortured to death by the country he insulted. Patterson's arrival is the prefect distract of a coup and he is spared. At a bar Patterson meets a bio weapons scientist who's developed a horrific disease for the KGB whom plan to distribute it to the Pentagon via toilet seats. Patterson of course is far too drunk to understand anything happening and teams up with Dane Edna to save the world.
Cast
Barry Humphries
Sir Les Patterson / Dame Edna Everage
Pamela Stephenson
Veronique Crudite
Thaao Penghlis
Colonel Richard Godowni
A
Andrew Clarke
Neville Thonge
Henri Szeps
Charles Herpes
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Inspector Farouk
E
Elizabeth McIvor
Nancy Borovansky
G
Garth Meade
Mustafa Toul
A
Arthur Sherman
General Evans
J
Josef Drewniak
Mossolov
Esben Storm
Russian Scientist
Joy Westmore
Lady Gwen Patterson
Crew
- Director
- George T. Miller
- Writer
- Barry Humphries, Diane Millstead
- Director of Photography
- David Connell
- Original Music Composer
- Tim Finn
- Editor
- Tim Wellburn
- Producer
- Sue Milliken
Details
- Release date
- 1987-04-09
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Australia
- Production
- J&M Entertainment, Humpstead Productions