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Trainer | Recruit
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1985
Budget 4,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 81,198,894 USD
Director Hugh Wilson stated that when it came time to film the driving scene with Hightower at 2:30 a.m., the actor originally cast as the angry driver was found passed out drunk in the trailer, so Hugh himself ended up playing the role of the angry driver, who Hightower crashes into.
After early test audiences responded most positively to Hightower out of all the characters, Bubba Smith was moved to second billing, just behind Steve Guttenberg.
The location used as the academy campus was known as the Mimico Lunatic Asylum--or variations thereof until 1911--and Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital from 1964-79. It was acquired by Humber College in 1991 after being mainly used as a site for filmmaking between 1979-91. It is now a renovated and active educational institution.
Producer Paul Maslansky got the idea for this movie during the production of The Right Stuff (1983). A group of police cadets arrived to help with crowd control for the filming of a street scene. When the cadets piled out of the buses to take their posts, they were diverse; men, women, tall, short, black, Asian. However, the cadets proved "fumblingly inept" at their assigned task of keeping members of the public away from the set. Maslansky witnessed an exasperated superior officer with a very red face chewing out two sputtering recruits; a lady weighing over two hundred pounds and a flabby man of well over fifty. Both were busily trying to rationalize their incompetence. Maslansky found it humorous, asking the sergeant, "Are these all going to be future San Francisco's finest?" The sergeant told him they had an equal opportunity hiring policy: "We have to take anyone who applies into the academy for training--but we can flunk them out in two weeks." It started Maslansky thinking, "What if they don't want to be flunked out? What if some guy or girl wants to stay in?" That night, he wrote a two-page treatment and gave it to executive producer Alan Ladd Jr., who loved the idea and agreed to develop the movie.
When attending his audition, Steve Guttenberg wore an old police shirt belonging to his father Stanley Guttenberg, who was a New York City police officer.
"Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris: Mahoney! Remember, that nobody screws with me. Carey Mahoney: Well, maybe you'll meet the right girl and all that will change."
"Cmndt. Eric Lassard: [Presenting a slide show just as a hooker begins to give him a blow job] Now this first SLIIIDE... shows a very, very interesting thing: our main building. On slide... TWO! We see other view... of... IT! Oh, my God, you wouldn't believe it!"
