
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 99m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: William Friedkin
- Stars: Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory Hines, Vince Edwards, William Marquez
- keywords: based on novel or book, cold war, satire, dictatorship, arms dealer
- Production_studio: Dream Quest Images, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Slogan: Chevy Chase and his partners are arms dealers. They sell second-rate weapons to third world nations. But they're not out to stick it to anyone.
- The Deal of the Century is featured in the top rankings of 1983
- #97 in Top Comedy Movies of 1983
- #44 in Top Crime Movies of 1983
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.