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15 April 1992 (USA)
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Mike is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to...
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This film had its premiere in the Florida Theater a couple of years after it was made.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Brooke Shields | ... | Brenda Starr |
 | Timothy Dalton | ... | Basil St. John |
 | Tony Peck | ... | Mike Randall |
 | Diana Scarwid | ... | Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb |
 | Nestor Serrano | ... | Jose |
 | Jeffrey Tambor | ... | Vladimir |
| June Gable | ... | Luba |
| Charles Durning | ... | Editor Francis I. Livright |
| Kathleen Wilhoite | ... | Reporter Hank O'Hare |
| John Short | ... | Cub Reporter Pesky Miller |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Police Chief Maloney |
| Mark von Holstein | ... | Donovan O'Shea, Public Enemy #3 |
 | Henry Gibson | ... | Professor Gerhardt Von Kreutzer |
| Ed Nelson | ... | President Harry S. Truman |
 | Tom Aldredge | ... | The Fake Capt. Borg |
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Filmed in 1986. Timothy Dalton began filming his first James Bond film, The Living Daylights (1987), two days after completing work on this movie.
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Cub Reporter Pesky Miller:
You're just sore because Brenda got the O'Shea story while you were sitting on your claws!
Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb: Haha! Little man, I don't care about the O'Shea story. "Small potatoes." I'm working on something so big it'll really clean your clock, Starr! Put you right out of the newspaper game! All you poor saps. So, tata!
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Libby 'Lips' Lipscomb: Haha! Little man, I don't care about the O'Shea story. "Small potatoes." I'm working on something so big it'll really clean your clock, Starr! Put you right out of the newspaper game! All you poor saps. So, tata!
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Referenced in Inside 'The Living Daylights' (2000) (V)
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The Missouri Waltz
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I am one of perhaps a couple thousand people to actually view this film in a theater and not on video-tape. I attended the premiere in the Florida Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. From the cast and crew, only the director, Robert Ellis Miller, managed to attend, introducing his film that was made in the Jacksonville area a few years before.
Overall, it's a fairly good film. The tongue-in-cheek acting is right on, with Brooke Shields and a pre-007 Timothy Dalton having a lot of fun with the material. Unfortunately, a couple of scenes were really hard to believe... especially when our heroine Brenda Starr waterskis on the backs of a pair of alligators!!!
The other effects in the film were nicely handled, including the animation and the scene showing an older New York City behind the historic Ritz Theater which played host to a scene early in the picture.
It's not a great film, but deserving of a viewing if you'd like an adventure flick without much seriousness. 7 out of 10 stars.