Sea of Troubles

Sea of Troubles is a 1980 war comedy directed and produced by Carl Andy and starring an ensemble cast consisting of Walter Matthau, Janet Leigh, Kevin Bacon, Burgess Meredith, Mae West (in her final film role), Bill Murray and Phil Silvers. a loose remake of the Ernst Lubitsch film To Be or Not to Be (1942) but changing the setting to 1968 Czechoslovakia during the onset of the Warsaw Pact invasion of the country, it concerns a theater company run by Ferdinand Baldrick and his wife Adda Baldrick who hatch out a plan to escape from the Communists into free territory.
A joint-production between Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, Sea of Troubles wasn't a big success but was well recieved and is considered one of Andy's best movies alongside Toby (1975).
== Cast ==
* Walter Matthau as Ferdinand Baldrick
* Janet Leigh as Adda Baldrick
* Kevin Bacon as Lieutenant "Sea of Troubles" Seaborn
* Burgess Meredith as Steznik, Stage Manager
* Mae West as Gretchnik
* Bill Murray as Okázalý
* Phil Silvers as Použitý
* Anthony Quinn as Professor Zrada
* Klaus Kinski as Comrade Škaredý
* Miloš Forman as Comrade Obtížný
* Ricardo Montalbán as General Darebák
== Home Media ==
MCA Videocassette first released the film on VHS and Betamax in a double tape set in 1981, followed by a Laserdisc version from the MCA DiscoVision brand, it would later be re-released on VHS in 1986, 1991 and 1998, on DVD it was first released by GoodTimes Home Entertainment under license from Universal in 2000, and later again by Universal themselves in 2002, both were double sided discs containing the original Widescreen on one side and a pan and scan full-screen version on the other, eventually in 2019, it saw it's Blu-ray debut through Shout! Factory as part of The Carl Andy Box set and it's own individual release the following year.
Category:1980 films
Category:English-language films
Category:1980s action comedy films
Category:1980s screwball comedy films
Category:American films
Category:British films
Category:Films set in Czechoslovakia
Category:Films set in 1968
Category:Films critical of Communism
Category:Films with screenplays by Robin Chapman
Category:Films with screenplays by Garrett Fredrickson
Category:American slapstick comedy films
Category:Films about actors
Category:Films about theatre
Category:Films scored by John Barry
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Carl Andy
Category:Czech Republic in non-Czech culture
Category:Films produced by Carl Andy