- The film's potentate figure is Massagi, an immensely wealthy arms merchant who materializes to coach the hero on closing the deal, explains that bribes to dictators are now legal and tax-deductible, and preaches that the weapons industry needs small conventional wars kept burning to stay viable into the next century.
Deal of the Century (1983)
film · 1983 film by William Friedkin
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- comedy film, crime film
- Cast
- Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, Sigourney Weaver, Randi Brooks