Judge Dredd (1995)

Director:

Danny Cannon

Writers (WGA):

John Wagner (characters) and
Carlos Ezquerra (characters) ...
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Release Date:

30 June 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

One man is Judge, Jury, AND Executioner.

Plot:

In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

Plot Keywords:

Judge | Justice | Police | Murder | Future

Awards:

1 win & 5 nominations

Cast

Sylvester Stallone	...	Judge Joseph Dredd
Armand Assante	...	Rico
Rob Schneider	...	Herman 'Fergee' Ferguson
Jürgen Prochnow	...	Judge Griffin (as Jurgen Prochnow)
Max von Sydow	...	Chief Justice Fargo
Diane Lane	...	Judge Hershey
Joanna Miles	...	Judge Evelyn McGruder
Joan Chen	...	Dr. Ilsa Hayden
Balthazar Getty	...	Cadet Nathan Olmeyer
Maurice Roëves	...	Warden Miller (as Maurice Roeves)
Ian Dury	...	Geiger
Christopher Adamson	...	Mean Machine (as Chris Adamson)
Ewen Bremner	...	Junior Angel
Peter Marinker	...	Judge Carlos Esposito
Martin McDougall	...	Twist
Angus MacInnes	...	Judge Gerald Silver
Louise Delamere	...	Locker Judge
Phil Smeeton	...	Link Angel
Steve Toussaint	...	Hunter Squad Leader
Bradley Lavelle	...	Chief Judge Hunter (as Bradley Savelle)
Mark Morghan	...	Judge Killed by Robot
Ed Stobart	...	Barge Crew Member
Huggy Leaver	...	Brutal Prisoner (as Huggy Lever)
Lex Daniel	...	Judge Brisco (as Alexis Daniel)
John Blakey	...	Border Guard
Howard Grace	...	Pilot
Dig Wayne	...	Reggie
Ashley Artus	...	Squatter 1
Christopher Glover	...	Squatter 2
Brendan Fleming	...	Squatter 3
Stephen Lord	...	Zed Squatter 1
Phil Kingston	...	Zed Squatter 2
Ewan Bailey	...	Aspen Guard
Stuart Mullen	...	Co-Pilot
Pat Starr	...	Lily Hammond
Adam Henderson	...	Fuppie
Mitch Ryan	...	Vartis Hammond (as Mitchell Ryan)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Adrienne Barbeau	...	Central (voice) (uncredited)
Sam Barriscale	...	Cadet Marks (uncredited)
Alan Bond-Ballard	...	Rioter (uncredited)
Ryan Gage	...	Young Thief (uncredited)
Mark Houghton	...	Supporting (uncredited)
James Earl Jones	...	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Mark Moraghan	...	Judge Monroe (uncredited)
James Remar	...	Block Warlord (uncredited)
Al Sapienza	...	Young Judge Who Removes Dredd's Helmet (uncredited)
Scott Wilson	...	Pa Angel (uncredited)

Directed by
Danny Cannon

Writing credits (WGA)
John Wagner		(characters) and
Carlos Ezquerra		(characters)
Michael De Luca		(story) and
William Wisher Jr.		(story) (as William Wisher)
William Wisher Jr.		(screenplay) (as William Wisher) and
Steven E. de Souza		(screenplay)

Produced by
Charles Lippincott	....	producer (as Charles M. Lippincott)
Beau Marks	....	producer (as Beau E.L. Marks)
Tony Munafo	....	associate producer
Susan Nicoletti	....	associate producer
Edward R. Pressman	....	executive producer
Andrew G. Vajna	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Alan Silvestri

Cinematography by
Adrian Biddle

Film Editing by
Harry Keramidas
Alex Mackie

Casting by
Jackie Burch

Production Design by
Nigel Phelps

Art Direction by
Don Dossett
Kevin Phipps
Leslie Tomkins		(supervising art director) (as Les Tomkins)

Set Decoration by
Peter Young

Costume Design by
Emma Porteus

Makeup Department
Paul Abascal	....	hair stylist: Mr. Stallone
Paul Catling	....	senior effects artist: Mean Machine
Chris Cunningham	....	special makeup effects designer and builder: Mean Machine (as Chris Halls)
Faye De Bremaeker	....	prosthetics trainee (as Faye de Bremaeker)
Nick Dudman	....	makeup supervisor
Nick Dudman	....	prosthetics supervisor
Scott H. Eddo	....	makeup assistant: Mr. Stallone (as Scott Eddo)
Michelle Freeborn	....	makeup trainee
Neill Gorton	....	effects technician: Mean Machine (as Neil Gordon)
Heather Harrigan	....	makeup trainee
Colin Jamison	....	chief hair stylist
Jan Jamison	....	assistant hair stylist
Reza Karim	....	prosthetics assistant
Melissa Lackersteen	....	makeup artist
James Morgan	....	prosthetics trainee
Colin Shulver	....	prosthetics workshop assistant
Lawrence Simmons	....	prosthetics workshop technician
Michelle Taylor	....	makeup assistant: Mean Machine
Jeni Walker	....	makeup artist
Chris Lyons	....	special effects teeth (uncredited)

Production Management
Margaret Adams	....	production manager
Simon McNair Scott	....	unit manager
Snorri Þórisson	....	production manager: Iceland (as Snorri Orrison)
Michael R. Sloan	....	post-production supervisor (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bernard Bellew	....	second assistant director
Leifur B. Dagfinnsson	....	second assistant director: Iceland (as Leifur B. Daggfinnsson)
Sallie Anne Hard	....	co-second assistant director
Ben Howarth	....	third assistant director
Beau Marks	....	second unit director
Christopher Newman	....	first assistant director (as Chris Newman)

Art Department
Brian Acaster	....	painter
Steve Adler	....	carpenter
David Allday	....	art director: action vehicle
Mark Allett	....	chargehand stand-by props
Maurice Andrews	....	plasterer
Peter Andrews	....	stagehand
Geoff Bacon	....	plasterer
Dave Baynham	....	chargehand plasterer
Ernie Bell	....	painter
Frederick Bewley	....	plasterer (as Fred Bewley)
Jon Billington	....	junior draughtsperson
Walter Blanchett	....	plasterer (as Wally Blanchett)
Danny Boxall	....	plasterer
Tony Boxall	....	chargehand plasterer
Edward Bradley	....	painter
Alan Brooks	....	head carpenter
Fred Brown	....	stagehand
John Burn	....	carpenter
Robert Byron	....	plasterer (as Bob Byron)
Darren Caen	....	carpenter
Barry Cahill	....	painter
Julian Caldow	....	conceptual illustrator
Ray Campbell	....	stand-by painter
John Casey	....	carpenter
George Chambers	....	stand-by stagehand
Paul Cheesman	....	dressing property
Neil Clark	....	supervising plasterer
Stephen Clark	....	carpenter
Colin Clarke	....	carpenter
William Clayton	....	plasterer (as Bill Clayton)
Matt Codd	....	conceptual illustrator (as Matthew Codd)
Michael Cohen	....	stagehand
Robert Consing	....	storyboard artist (as Robbie Consing)
Chris Corke	....	carpenter (as Christopher Corke)
Steven Corke	....	carpenter (as Steve Corke)
George Coussins	....	supervising carpenter
Chris Cunningham	....	conceptual illustrator (as Chris Halls)
Peter De Souza	....	carpenter
Richard Denyer	....	carpenter
Miranda Diamond	....	draughtsperson
Stephen Dobric	....	draughtsperson
Stephen Eels	....	stand-by carpenter
David Gibson	....	carpenter
John Greaves	....	storyboard artist
Jim Hacket	....	carpenter
Geoff Hall	....	chargehand carpenter
Kavin Hall	....	head painter
Wayne Hammond	....	carpenter
Robert Harper	....	supervising painter (as Bob Harper)
Paul J. Hayes	....	carpenter (as Paul Hayes)
Michael Hayward	....	supervising carpenter
John Hedger	....	painter
Andrea Hefford	....	art department assistant
Oliver Hodge	....	bike dressing
Jonathan Hurst	....	stand-by props
Leslie Jones	....	carpenter
Paul Jones	....	plasterer
Martin Kingsley	....	chargehand dressing property
Martin Laing	....	assistant art director
Steve Lamonby	....	saracen engineer
John Lanzer	....	production buyer
John Lawrence	....	carpenter
Steve Lawrence	....	chargehand rigger
Stewart Little	....	plasterer
Peter Looby	....	dressing property
John Lowen	....	chargehand wood machinist
Michael Lunnon	....	carpenter
Richard Lyon	....	construction storeman
Tony Mansey	....	carpenter
Joe McGurk	....	carpenter
Nick Melia	....	plasterer
Richard Mills	....	carpenter
John Mister	....	stand-by plasterer
Allan Moss	....	sculptor
Peter Murray	....	carpenter
Stephen Murray	....	carpenter
Simon Murton	....	conceptual illustrator
Alf Newvell	....	chargehand rigger
Terry Newvell	....	chargehand stagehand
Trevor Nicol	....	carpenter
Kevin O'Byrne	....	carpenter
Pat O'Loughnane	....	carpenter (as Patrick O'Loughnane)
Adam O'Neill	....	draughtsperson
Arnold Oke	....	carpenter
Ian Pape	....	chargehand rigger
Ken Pattenden	....	construction manager
Graham Pearce	....	chargehand painter
Brian Pegg	....	plasterer
Darren Philpott	....	carpenter
Dave Philpott	....	chargehand carpenter
Jason Pilfold	....	carpenter
Alan Powell	....	plasterer
Steve Powell	....	plasterer
Paul Purdy	....	supervising property storeman
Michael Redding	....	construction coordinator
Jeff Reid	....	carpenter
John Robery	....	plasterer
Paul Robery	....	plasterer
Roy Rodgers	....	sculptor
Ian Rolfe	....	stand-by rigger
Jeremy Rose	....	plasterer
Richard Rowlands	....	wood machinist
David Rushmere	....	carpenter
Peter Russell	....	senior draughtsperson
Nick Russo	....	carpenter
Alex Rutherford	....	graphic designer
Andy Sandbach	....	plasterer
Roy Seers	....	supervising plasterer
Len Serpant	....	chargehand stagehand
Keith Shannon	....	plasterer
Brian Shelley	....	chargehand painter
Jamie Shelley	....	painter
Lee Shelley	....	painter
Geoff Shelton	....	painter
Keith Short	....	sculptor
Gary Smith	....	painter
William Sower	....	wood machinist (as Bill Sower)
Peter Stachini	....	stagehand
Maurice Stafford	....	plasterer
Gary Stokes	....	plasterer
Kevin Swabey	....	carpenter
Don Taylor	....	head plasterer
Ty Teiger	....	property master
Alan Tilley	....	carpenter
Gary Tomkins	....	assistant art director
Nick Turnbull	....	stand-by props
Anthony Turner	....	plasterer
Kevin Turner	....	plasterer
Kevin Walker	....	conceptual illustrator
Peter Wallace	....	supervising rigger
Allan Walsham	....	carpenter
Peter Watson	....	bike dressing
John Watts	....	painter
Nicky Western	....	stagehand
Peter Western	....	supervising painter
Clive Wheeler	....	stagehand
Stephen Whitworth	....	carpenter
David Williamson	....	carpenter
Mark Williamson	....	carpenter
John Willis	....	plasterer
Kenny Wilson	....	supervising stagehand (as Ken Wilson)
John Alvin	....	poster artist (uncredited)
Lawrie Ayres	....	dressing props (uncredited)
Will Ayres	....	props (uncredited)
Pierre Bohanna	....	modeler (uncredited)
Stuart Kearns	....	art department junior (uncredited)
Claire Levinson	....	set dresser (uncredited)
Sean McConville	....	art department crew (uncredited)
Anthony Neale	....	neon/props (uncredited)
Greg Staples	....	title illustrations (uncredited)
Tim Timmington	....	props (uncredited)
Mark White	....	construction (uncredited)

Sound Department
Christopher E. Bennett	....	apprentice sound editor
Kim B. Christensen	....	sound effects editor
David A. Cohen	....	adr editor
Patrick Dodd	....	dialogue editor
Richard Duarte	....	foley recordist
Malcolm Fife	....	sound effects editor
Andrew Griffiths	....	sound assistant
Chris Grigg	....	sound effects editor
Nancy Jencks	....	adr assistant
Mark Levinson	....	temp mix supervisor
Kyrsten Mate	....	sound effects editor (as Kyrsten Mate Comoglio)
Michael Minkler	....	sound re-recording mixer
Chris Munro	....	sound mixer
Jennifer Myers	....	foley artist
Margie O'Malley	....	foley artist
Jim Pasque	....	foley recordist
E. Jeane Putnam	....	foley editor
Richard Quinn	....	dialogue editor
Karen Rester	....	apprentice sound editor (as Karen Alane Rester)
Philip Rogers	....	dubbing recordist
Leslie Shatz	....	sound designer
Leslie Shatz	....	sound re-recording mixer
Lisa Storer	....	assistant dialogue editor
Colin Wood	....	sound maintenance
Marilyn S. Zalkan	....	first assistant sound editor
Matt Colleran	....	dubbing recordist (uncredited)
Andy Newell	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)
Philip Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Clive Beard	....	special effects floor coordinator
Neil Carr	....	flying wire technician
Paul Clancy	....	special effects technician
Steve Cullane	....	special effects workshop coordinator
Michael Dawson	....	special effects administrator
Kevin Draycott	....	special effects lead senior technician
Michael Dunleavy	....	ABC robot engineer (as Mike Dunleavy)
Michael Durkan	....	special effects technician
Frank Guiney	....	special effects technician
Alexander Gunn	....	special effects technician (as Alex Gunn)
Darrell Guyon	....	special effects lead technician
Kevin Herd	....	special effects senior technician
Oliver Hodge	....	stand-by modeller
David Hunter	....	special effects technician
Dave Knowles	....	special effects senior technician
Rob Malos	....	ABC robot electronics
Rob Malos	....	special effects senior technician (as Robert Malos)
Kevin Mathews	....	flying wire senior technician
Brian Morrison	....	ABC robot system designer
Brian Morrison	....	special effects senior design engineer
Shaun Rutter	....	special effects technician
Robbie Scott	....	ABC robot engineer
Paul Taylor	....	ABC robot engineer
Betty Vaughan-Richards	....	modeller
Brian Warner	....	special effects senior technician (as Brian M. Warner)
Peter Watson	....	stand-by modeller
Mark J. White	....	modeller
Peter White	....	ABC robot engineer
Bob Wiesinger	....	flying wire supervisor (as Bob Weisinger)
Joss Williams	....	ABC robot supervisor
Joss Williams	....	special effects supervisor
Edwin Wright	....	modeller
Duncan Capp	....	special effects (uncredited)
Dave Chagouri	....	special effects technician (uncredited)
Jason Chalmers	....	special effects assistant (uncredited)
Manex Efrem	....	special effects assistant (uncredited)
Jason McCameron	....	animatronics (uncredited)
Pat Swovelin	....	first assistant camera: pyrotechnics unit (uncredited)
Jody Taylor	....	special effects assistant (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Harry J. Alpert	....	motion control camera operator: Mass. Illusion
Mark C. Anderson	....	grip: Mass. Illusion
Glenn Arnold	....	projectionist/laboratory supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Pam Auditore	....	digital visual effects animator: Mass. Illusion
Al Aumenta	....	lasercam operator: Mass. Illusion
Daijiro Ban	....	key modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Randy Bauer	....	lead animator: Kleiser-Walczak
Jeremy Beadell	....	mechanical effects assistant rigger: Mass. Illusion
Roy Berkowitz	....	E-6 lab technician/editorial assistant: Mass. Illusion
Pierre Bohanna	....	modeler
Garland M. Branch III	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Anthony Braun	....	first assistant cameraperson: Mass. Illusion
Nicholas Brooks	....	senior digital visual effects animator: Mass. Illusion
Mara Bryan	....	production coordinator: London, Mass. Illusion
Joan Collins Carey	....	post-production supervisor: Mass. Illusion (as Joan Collins)
Rusty Case	....	systems administrator: Mass. Illusion
Craig Chamberlain	....	model shop coordinator: Mass. Illusion
Eric Chamberlain	....	model shop supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Peter Chesloff	....	digital technical assistant: Mass. Illusion
Paul Clemente	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Byars Cole	....	first assistant director: Mass. Illusion
Amy Comstock	....	accountant: Mass. Illusion
Kristin Coppola	....	assistant to executive producer: Kleiser-Walczak
Maria Criscuolo	....	production manager: Mass. Illusion
Gary Crosby	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Shaun Cusick	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
John K. Dodelson	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion (as John Dodelson)
Xavier Duval	....	lighting: Kleiser-Walczak
Jinnie Eddlemon	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Kevin Elam	....	production coordinator: Mass. Illusion
Doug Ferris	....	matte artist: The Magic Camera Company
Christian Foucher	....	lighting: Kleiser-Walczak
Robin Kristin Francis	....	digital assistant: Kleiser-Walczak (as Robin Francis)
John Gaeta	....	assistant visual effects supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Frank Gallego	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Yezid O. Gallego	....	mechanical effects machinist: Mass. Illusion
Luc Genevriez	....	lighting supervisor: Kleiser-Walczak
Lisa Goldberg	....	database manager
Tim Goldberg	....	shuttle crash/pyrotechnic producer: Mass. Illusion
John Grant	....	matte cameraman: The Magic Camera Company
B. David Green	....	second visual effects supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Colin Green	....	previsualization supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Gordon Grinberg	....	assistant editor: Mass. Illusion
Joe Hall	....	systems administrator: Kleiser-Walczak
David R. Hardberger	....	motion control camera operator: Mass. Illusion
Toby Hawkes	....	modeller
Christina Hills	....	animator: Kleiser-Walczak
Ken Howard	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Joel Hynek	....	visual effects supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Michael Jenkins	....	third electric: Mass. Illusion
Steve Jezewski	....	grip: Mass. Illusion
Greg Juby	....	animation assistant: Kleiser-Walczak
Daniel Kapp	....	second assistant cameraperson: Mass. Illusion
Michael Kellough	....	mechanical effects technician: Mass. Illusion
Laura Kelly	....	first assistant cameraperson: Mass. Illusion (as Laura E. Kelly)
Kelly Kerby	....	mechanical effects supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Jeffrey Kleiser	....	computer animation supervisor: Kleiser-Walczak
Daniel Klem	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Robert Kohut	....	mechanical effects machinist: Mass. Illusion
Steven Kosakura	....	motion control/camera engineer: Mass. Illusion
Phillippe Lalouette	....	lighting: Kleiser-Walczak
John Lesquereaux	....	painter: Mass. Illusion
Daniel Leung	....	previsualization designer: Mass. Illusion
Robin Dean Leyden	....	motion base engineer: Mass. Illusion (as Robin Leyden)
Peter Lindstrom	....	electronics technician: Mass. Illusion
Rae Long	....	lighting and technical assistant: Kleiser-Walczak
Jean Baptiste Lère	....	lighting: Kleiser-Walczak (as Jean-Baptiste Lere)
Marco Maldonado	....	first assistant cameraperson: Mass. Illusion
Pablo Maldonado	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Dwayne McClintock	....	motion control engineer/camera operator: Mass. Illusion
Will McCoy	....	photoshop artist: Mass. Illusion (as William McCoy)
Brian McGinley	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Dennis McHugh	....	key gaffer: Mass. Illusion
David Merritt	....	key modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Bill Messina	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion (as Billy Messina)
Ed Miarecki	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Kent Mikalsen	....	model designer: Mass. Illusion
Patrick Mooney	....	digital assistant: Kleiser-Walczak
Michael Moore	....	digital assistant: Kleiser-Walczak
Mark Morgenstein	....	model designer: Mass. Illusion
Thaine Morris	....	pyrotechnician: Mass. Illusion
Howard Munford	....	modeller
Bill Neil	....	high speed director of photography: Mass. Illusion (as William Neil)
Mary Nelson	....	post coordinator: Kleiser-Walczak
Pascal Nicot	....	lighting: Kleiser-Walczak
John P. Nugent	....	digital technical assistant: Mass. Illusion (as John Nugent)
David Núñez	....	mechanical effects rigger: Mass. Illusion (as David Nunez)
Eileen O'Neill	....	lead animator: Kleiser-Walczak
Peter Oberdorfer	....	previsualization designer: Mass. Illusion
Carrie Owens	....	assistant visual effects producer: Mass. Illusion
Diane Pearlman	....	visual effects producer: Mass. Illusion
Mike Perry	....	smoke effets/particle systems: Kleiser-Walczak
Larry Plastrik	....	layout supervisor: Mass. Illusion
Peter Plevritis	....	digital visual effects animator: Mass. Illusion
Jack W. Poore	....	third electric: Mass. Illusion
Michelle Quigley	....	associate art director: Mass. Illusion
Thomas Quinn	....	mechanical effects rigger: Mass. Illusion (as Tom Quinn)
Santo Ragno	....	digital assistant: Kleiser-Walczak
Sonja Reinholt	....	assistant production coordinator: Mass. Illusion
Thomas L. Rindge	....	purchaser: Mass. Illusion
Rinaldo Rivera	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
T. Baker Rowell	....	production manager: Kleiser-Walczak
Robb Runyon	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Heather Sands	....	editorial coordinator: Mass. Illusion
Richard 'Rico' Sands	....	best boy electric: Mass. Illusion (as Rick Sands)
Mike Schmitt	....	previsualization designer: Mass. Illusion (as Michael Schmitt)
Barret Schumacher	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion (as Barrett Schumacher)
Anezka Sebek	....	computer animation executive producer: Kleiser-Walczak
Daniel L. Smith	....	previsualization designer: Mass. Illusion
Jim Spieler	....	set modelmaker: Mass. Illusion (as James Spieler)
Serge Sretschinsky	....	digital visual effects supervisor/software designer: Mass. Illusion
Linda St. Pierre	....	receptionist/office coordinator: Mass. Illusion
David K. Stewart	....	director of photography: Mass. Illusion
Eric Swenson	....	live action motion control camera operator: Mass. Illusion
Mark Swierat	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion (as Mark J. Swierat)
Jeffrey M. Taggart	....	chief financial officer: Kleiser-Walczak
Robert U. Taylor	....	visual effects art director: Mass. Illusion
Nick Thielker	....	set modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Susan Thum	....	CAD designer: Mass. Illusion
Stephen Thurn	....	key modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Paul Vallerie	....	set modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Stewart Verrilli	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Frank Vitz	....	head of software: Kleiser-Walczak
Diana Walczak	....	computer animation supervisor: Kleiser-Walczak
Talmage Watson	....	animation assistant: Kleiser-Walczak
Tony Whalen	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Jeffery A. Williams	....	animator: Kleiser-Walczak
Cash S. Wilson	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Deborah Wiltman	....	senior digital visual effects animator: Mass. Illusion
Jennifer Wollan	....	visual effects editor: Mass. Illusion
Sergei Yantovsky	....	digital technical assistant: Mass. Illusion
Minamoto Yoshida	....	modelmaker: Mass. Illusion
Art David	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
Mitchell S. Drain	....	supervising digital artist: CRC (uncredited)
Derry Frost	....	director of production: Amalgamated Pixels, Inc. (uncredited)
José Granell	....	model unit supervisor (uncredited)
Brian Hanable	....	digital effects compositor (uncredited)
Philip Heady	....	visual effects production assistant (uncredited)
Christian Hogue	....	digital graphics supervisor: Lost In Space (uncredited)
Ivo Horvat	....	matte painter: SPI (uncredited)
Antony Hunt	....	executive producer: The Magic Camera Company (uncredited)
Stephen Kennedy	....	digital compositor (uncredited)
Brendan Lonergan	....	concept designer (uncredited)
Terrence Masson	....	visual effects (uncredited)
John J. Miralles	....	technical assistant (uncredited)
Peter W. Moyer	....	digital compositor: Digital FilmWorks (uncredited)
John Nelson	....	visual effects supervisor: wide city composites (uncredited)
Nic Nicholas	....	senior animator (uncredited)
Mark Schwentner	....	electrician: visual effects (uncredited)
Andy Stevens	....	optical camera assistant: Magic Camera Co (uncredited)
Steve Wright	....	digital effects producer: Atomix (uncredited)

Stunts
Del Baker	....	stunts
Marc Boyle	....	stunt coordinator
Ignacio Carreño	....	stunt double: Mr. Stallone (as Ignacio Carreno)
Stuart Clark	....	stunt double
Ray De-Haan	....	stunts
Therese Donnelly	....	stunts
Nigel Fan	....	stunts
Neil Finnighan	....	stunts
Nick Gillard	....	stunts
Ian Jay	....	stunts
Vincent Keane	....	stunts
Derek Lea	....	stunts
Guy List	....	stunts
Nick Powell	....	stunts (as Nicholas Powell)
Gary Robert	....	stunts
Luisa Silvestre	....	stunts
Andy Smart	....	stunts
Nrinder Dhudwar	....	stunts (uncredited)
Mark Anthony Newman	....	stunts (uncredited)
Ray Nicholas	....	stunts (uncredited)
Andreas Petrides	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
John Barry	....	rigging electrician
Richard Blanshard	....	still photographer
Ashley Bond	....	clapper loader
Bob Bridges	....	video assist coordinator
John Clark	....	chargehand rigging gaffer
Vince Clarke	....	electrician (as Vincent 'Bugsy' Clarke)
Gary Colkett	....	electrician
David Daunt	....	camera technician: Wescam camera (as Dave Daunt)
Chris Day	....	electrician (as Christopher Day)
Kevin Day	....	gaffer
Chris Dowling	....	practical electrician
Graham Driscoll	....	electrician
Alfie Emmins	....	rigging electrician (as Alfred Emmins)
John Flemming	....	camera grip
Ian Foster	....	camera operator
John Foster	....	focus puller
Peter Fraffman	....	rigger
Peter Goddard	....	best boy electric
Charles Guard	....	camera department trainee
Eddie Hackett	....	practical electrician
Rupert Hornstein	....	clapper loader
George Hunt	....	rigging electrician
Steve Koster	....	camera operator: Wescam camera
Rod Marley	....	clapper loader
Rod Marley	....	second assistant camera
Brian Mcgivern	....	generator operator (as Brian McGivern)
Eric Melville	....	practical electrician
Robert Neill	....	camera department trainee
John Pitts	....	rigger
Gary Pocock	....	camera grip
John Robertson	....	rigging electrician
James Roper	....	practical electrician
Anthony Rubini	....	rigging electrician
Fraser Taggart	....	focus puller
Gary Varney	....	electrician
Les Weighell	....	rigging electrician (as Leslie Weighell)
David Worley	....	camera operator
Jimmy Worley	....	electrician
Darren Bailey	....	remote camera technician (uncredited)
Kevin Brookner	....	video operator (uncredited)
Gary Dormer	....	electrical rigger (uncredited)
Tony Rowland	....	grip: "c" camera (uncredited)
Nigel Seal	....	focus puller (uncredited)
John Trapman	....	camera technician: Wescam camera (uncredited)

Animation Department
Marianne I. van Abbe	....	background artist (uncredited)

Casting Department
Amy Allen	....	casting assistant: UK
Lucy Boulting	....	casting: UK
Leifur B. Dagfinnsson	....	casting: Iceland (as Leifur B. Daggfinnsson)
Gail Goldberg	....	casting assistant: Los Angeles

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Brad Anderson	....	costumer: Mr. Stallone (as Bradley Anderson)
Cynthea Dowling	....	wardrobe mistress
Anthony Godd	....	wardrobe assistant
Kerry Holmes	....	wardrobe assistant
Michael Mooney	....	wardrobe assistant
Patrick Wheatley	....	wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department
Mellissa Bretherton	....	assistant editor (as Melissa Bretherton)
Matthew Cassel	....	assistant editor
Kristin Eaton	....	apprentice editor
Peter S. Elliot	....	associate editor (as Peter Elliot)
Jeremy Gibbs	....	additional film editor
Baylis Glascock	....	assistant editor (as Bayliss Glascock)
Rebecca Hilliard	....	post-production coordinator
Lionel Johnson	....	assistant editor
Christopher Kroll	....	first assistant editor
Humberto Luna-Gallardo	....	assistant editor
Mark Sale	....	assistant editor
Kathleen Tanner	....	post-production assistant
Russ Woolnough	....	assistant editor
Richard Alderete	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
Mary Nelson-Duerrstein	....	post-production coordinator (uncredited)
David Orr	....	color timer (uncredited)

Music Department
Sandy DeCrescent	....	music contractor (as Sandy De Crescent)
Eric Harryman	....	music supervisor
Kenneth Karman	....	music editor
Barry Levine	....	music supervisor
Steven Machat	....	executive music supervisor (as Steven E. Machat)
William Ross	....	orchestrator
Dennis S. Sands	....	score mixer (as Dennis Sands)
Alan Silvestri	....	conductor
Lisa Storer	....	assistant music editor
Jacqueline Tager	....	assistant music editor
Bobby Muzingo	....	additional orchestrator (uncredited)
Robert Randles	....	music consultant (uncredited)
Jay B. Richardson	....	music editor (uncredited)
Lee Scott	....	music editor (uncredited)
Steven Scott Smalley	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
James Thatcher	....	musician: french horn (uncredited)
Toby Wood	....	assistant scoring engineer (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Mike Beaven	....	unit driver
Bruce Behrens	....	driver: construction department
Brian Estabrook	....	unit driver
Len Furssedonn	....	unit driver
Steve Hill	....	unit driver: Mr. Stallone
Terry Reece	....	unit driver: Mr. Stallone
Mitchell Bergman	....	transportation consultant (uncredited)

Other crew
David Bifano	....	synclavier/auricle programming
Susan Bradley	....	title designer
Carmel Cassidy	....	accounting assistant
Gary Compton	....	bodyguard: Mr. Stallone
Mary Lou Devlin	....	production associate
Marc J. Federman	....	production insurance: Near North Insurance Brokerage, Inc.
Kate Garbett	....	production coordinator
Richard Graysmark	....	floor runner
Barney Jones	....	loop group coordinator
Gary Jones	....	production accountant
Kevin King	....	assistant: Mr. Stallone
Darren Litten	....	floor coordinator
Simon McNair Scott	....	location manager
Gary Nixon	....	assistant production accountant
Matthew O'Toole	....	accounting assistant (as Matt O'Toole)
Carl Schmidt	....	armorer (as Carl F. Schmidt)
Peter J. Silbermann	....	publicist
Phil Stoole	....	production runner
Sheila Wilson	....	script supervisor
Marco Assante	....	assistant: Armand Assante (uncredited)
Michelle Callahan	....	assistant: Edward R. Pressman (uncredited)
Beverly Cusack	....	post-production accountant (uncredited)
Wayne Fitzgerald	....	title designer (uncredited)
Steve Morphew	....	stand-in: Sylvester Stallone (uncredited)
Frederic Perrin	....	caterer (uncredited)
Phil Silver	....	post-production accountant (uncredited)

Thanks
Martin Fink	....	special thanks (as Marty Fink)

Production Companies

• Hollywood Pictures
• Cinergi Pictures Entertainment

Distributors

• Buena Vista Pictures (1995) (USA) (theatrical)
• Pathé (1995) (UK) (theatrical)
• Filmes Lusomundo (1995) (Portugal) (theatrical)
• UGC-Fox Distribution (UFD) (1995) (France) (theatrical)
• Tobis Filmkunst (1995) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Laurenfilm (1995) (Spain) (theatrical)
• RCV Film Distribution (1995) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (1995) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (1995) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Nea Kinisi (1995) (Greece) (theatrical)
• RCV Film Distribution (199?) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• RCV Film Distribution (199?) (Luxembourg) (theatrical)
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (1995) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Gativideo (1995) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Hollywood Pictures Home Video (1995) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Image Entertainment (199?) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1999) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Nea Kinisi Video (1996) (Greece) (VHS)
• RCV Home Entertainment (1998) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• RCV Home Entertainment (2000) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• SF Video (1996) (Sweden) (VHS)
• VCL Communications (199?) (Germany) (VHS)
• Walt Disney Home Video (1996) (USA) (VHS)

Special Effects

• Asylum Models & Effects (specialty props)
• Computer Film Company, The (CFC) (additional digital compositing)
• Digital Fauxtography
• FB-FX (costume armour)
• Manex Visual Effects (MVFX)
• Mass. Illusions
• Pacific Title and Art Studio (visual effects opticals)
• ReelEye Company (special effects contact lenses)

Other Companies

• Atomix Inc.  additional computer graphics
• Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies
• Cinema Research  titles and opticals
• Complete Film Corporation  completion guarantor (as Complete Film Company)
• D. Rez Hollywood  additional digital compositing
• Digital Fauxtography  additional computer graphics
• Digital Magic Company  additional digital compositing
• Epic Soundtrax  soundtrack
• FCM  multimedia
• Image Design  additional digital compositing
• International Film Guarantors  completion bond
• Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company  computer animation
• Lee Lighting  grip and lighting equipment
• Lucasfilm THX / TAP Theater Alignment Program  as THX Theater Alignment Tech / San Francisco
• Near North Insurance Brokerage  insurance
• Palmbrokers  greenery (uncredited)
• Pegasus Pictures  location services
• Rover Group  Land Rover vehicles provided and designed by
• Saul Zaentz Film Center  sound post-production services
• Saul Zaentz Film Center  sound re-recording
• Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI)  additional digital compositing
• Twickenham Film Studios  post-production mixing
• Wescam USA  wescam provided by

Also Known As:

"El juez" - Argentina, Mexico (imdb display title), Peru (imdb display title), Venezuela
"Judge Dredd" - Austria, Germany
"Судья Дредд" - Russia
"A Lei de Dredd" - Portugal
"Dredd" - Slovenia
"Dredd - La legge sono io" - Italy
"Dredd bíró" - Hungary
"Judge Dredd - tuomari" - Finland
"Juez Dredd" - Spain
"Juge Dredd" - Canada (French title)
"Mosamartle Dredi" - Georgia
"O Juiz" - Brazil
"O dikastis Dredd" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"Sedzia Dredd" - Poland
"Soudce Dredd" - Czech Republic
"Sudija Dred" - Serbia
"Yargiç" - Turkey (Turkish title)

MPAA:

Rated R for continuous violent action

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS (8 channels)

Certification:

Iceland:16 | USA:R (certificate #33904) | South Korea:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Finland:K-15 | Brazil:16 | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Singapore:PG13 (re-rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (cut)

Filming Locations:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Trivia:

Christopher Walken turned down the role of Rico.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Before the enter the exhaust hole, the fire is being blown outwards.. When Dredd and Ferguson run in the exhaust pipe, the flame is chasing them rather than moving towards them.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator:In the third millennium, the world changed. Climate, nations, all were in upheaval. The Earth transformed into a poisonous, scorched desert, known as "The Cursed Earth". Millions of people crowded into a few Megacities, where roving bands of street savages created violence the justice system could not control...

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Atop the Fourth Wall: Law and Order #1 (#2.41)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

THE DREDD SONG

Delivers thought-provoking action in a fantasy sci-fi wrapping

Judge Dredd is based on one of the most popular characters from the UK's 2000 AD comics. It is set in the 22nd Century, when most of the Earth has been turned into a desolate wasteland known as the "Cursed Earth" and most humans live in highly concentrated cities, walled off from the rest of the world. Society is fairly anarchic, except there for a class of humans, known as "judges", who act as cop, judge, jury and executioner all rolled into one. Sylvester Stallone is the titular judge. He's notorious among the other judges, the general citizenry and the other judges for upholding the law in a harsh way. The film primarily tells the story arc from the comics known as "The Return of Rico", and concerns a plot to get Dredd into trouble while overthrowing what's left of the existing "order".

This is a great action/sci-fi film with a tone reminiscent of Demolition Man (1993), Total Recall (1990), The Fifth Element (1997), Blade Runner (1982) and similar films. If you like Stallone, gloomy futuristic production design and/or intense action films, Judge Dredd should be a rewarding experience for you, as long as you're not a purist who is coming to the film by way of an intricate familiarity with the 2000 AD comics.

The source material caused a slight problem for me, too, but not because I'm a purist. Rather, Judge Dredd suffers a bit from a flaw that plagues many films based on comic books--writers Michael De Luca, William Wisher Jr. and Steven E. de Souza had an extensive, pre-existent mythology (as is necessary when creating a complete, new world) on which to build their work, and they tried to incorporate a bit too much of it. Because of this, we're introduced to a large cast of characters fulfilling functions that we're not familiar with (in the details, at least), and we're regularly faced with new lingo, new cultural concepts, new technology, and so on, often with just a couple lines of dialogue. If you want to understand the details, you really have to pay close attention. But on the other hand, the general arc of the story is relatively simple, and you don't have to know every detail to enjoy it.

Given the disposition that Stallone has as Judge Dredd in the film, he may as well have walked out of Kurt Wimmer's film Equilibrium (2002). Dredd initially goes about his business almost robotically; he only cares about enforcing the law. When he's recruited by a higher-up, Chief Justice Fargo (Max von Sydow), to teach ethics (which is quite an ironic idea when you see Dredd's behavior in the opening scene), he tells the students that being a judge basically means giving up one's life to the law. He says that one cannot have friends, for example--never mind that other judges, like Judge Hershey (Diane Lane) try to have social lives outside of work. Dredd later tells Hershey that he did have a friend at one point, but he had to judge him. Sending a friend to prison or killing him (we're not told exactly how Dredd judged him, although we find out later) isn't exactly the best way to encourage a healthy social life.

So the subtext of the story, and Dredd's character arc, becomes that through a number of hardships, he finally learns something about ethics for himself--just in time to deal with a potentially shattering bit of information about his personal identity. He ends up accompanied by a man, Herman Ferguson (Rob Schneider, in a role meant primarily as comic relief, although more generously, he's an ironic emotional facilitator), whom he had just judged harshly, even though Ferguson wasn't really doing anything wrong on his first day out of prison. Together they have to go to a figurative hell (The Cursed Earth) to deal with figurative "demons" (a famed band of rogue cannibals who live in the tough environment) and back again to reach their fulfillment.

Like many recent sci-fi stories set in the future, Judge Dredd has a pessimistic view of where technology and social conventions are leading humans. As the story has it, at one point, we had built massive, relatively unstoppable robot warriors, and one of the highlights of the film is when the villain finds one and puts it back into service. It's as much fun to watch the gadgetry as it is to watch the action sequences, and the computer generated "landscapes" throughout the film are spellbinding, with their sly jabs at various changes and similarities to present locations and cultures. The whole concept of the judges and their hierarchical structure is fascinating, even if some apparent inconsistencies (such as why judges are not summarily dealt with in the same manner that other citizens are) are never explained in the film.

The performances are good, even if a few actors barely get enough screen time (like Lane and Joan Chen, who plays semi-villain Ilsa), and the premise is captivating. It's too bad this film gets unduly knocked by purists and those misguidedly looking for detail realism in the genre. Judge Dredd is severely underrated on IMDb. It deserves a first look or a second chance.