When was trading places made

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Timothy Harris Herschel Weingrod. Top credits Director John Landis. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer. Trading Places. Clip Video Gotta lot of Soul. Security, Merry Christmas. It's All Yours. Photos Top cast Edit. Denholm Elliott Coleman as Coleman. Richard D. Fisher Jr. Mary St. John Landis. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke.

Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job.

And they were very wealthy but also incredibly cheap — we would play on public courts where it was like a couple of bucks for four guys for an hour. At the time I was living in what was a fairly run-down part of L. I lived in an apartment complex where everybody either had a gun held to their head or been raped or whatever — just a very criminal environment — that was part of it I suppose as well.

It can certainly be read and enjoyed, but the inescapable fact is that it was written in order to be seen. And they wanted — I won't tell you who they wanted me to cast — but the studio was very unhappy with almost everybody they wanted me to cast. Now I knew Danny well, having worked with him, and I knew Danny was a fine actor, and he could easily play this guy.

Danny, he's an actor: You tell him what you want, and he delivers. And I thought he'd be wonderful. So he reduced his price quite a bit, and I got him, so I had Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, and they were upset because Danny hadn't — his last couple of pictures hadn't done well, and Eddie was still an unknown really.

The only character in the script I had a problem with, because she's such a fantasy, is Ophelia. When I cast her the studio went nuts. I knew that that would not allow me a full career — that at a certain point it would get limiting. And during the course of that, he must have had some sense that I would be good. So he handed me that part.

He clearly went against every one of the studios. The casting people all thought he was crazy, and he single-handedly changed the course of my life by giving me that part. It got Jamie Lee Curtis out of horror movies. It got Herschel and I to a much more prominent level. The two old guys — it completely revived their careers. Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche as the Duke brothers, hatching their scheme. So I called him. And he came in and was prepared to read for me. I was so shocked. How come you haven't worked in 14 years?

He never stopped working the rest of his life — he made like 10 more movies — I worked with him twice more. I thought it was a good way to highlight that, especially in the opening scene when you see the legless black guy.

The exterior and interior of Duke Brothers, the big floor, was Philadelphia.