Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988) Online

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Bubba Smith	-	Hightower
	David Graf	-	Tackleberry
	Michael Winslow	-	Jones
	Leslie Easterbrook	-	Callahan
	Marion Ramsey	-	Hooks
	Janet Jones	-	Kate
	Lance Kinsey	-	Proctor
	Matt McCoy	-	Nick
	G.W. Bailey	-	Harris
	George Gaynes	-	Lassard
	Rene Auberjonois	-	Tony
	George R. Robertson	-	Hurst
	Tab Thacker	-	House
	Archie Hahn	-	Mouse
	James Hampton	-	Mayor of Miami

Steve Guttenberg turned down the lead role and gave a firm "no" to any other Police Academy sequels that might turn up (and they did). He turned them all down. Two decades later, he expressed in an interview, that he regretted turning down the chance to star in the sequels, and was among the main people trying to make another Police Academy movie.

When Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987) was released, acerbic critic Rex Reed swore, "If they make another Police Academy movie, I'll leave the business." At the time, Paul Maslansky said, "Reed's one of the reasons I'm making Police Academy 5. I expect him to be a man of his word." To Maslansky's disappointment, Reed was not.

Had Steve Guttenberg agreed to appear in the movie, his character Mahoney was to be promoted to Lieutenant at the end of the film.

Regarding his experience working on this film, Rene Auberjonois (Tony) stated, "Why I choose to do things is a mystery to me sometimes. I've done things that, on the face of it, you think, 'why would anybody do Police Academy 5?' I had to look at the role, and see if there's a reason to do it. I did it because it was an opportunity to play a character that nobody else was ever going to let me play. I had a great time doing it, don't regret it for a moment, and I'd do it again in a minute."

(At around one hour and seventeen minutes) The scene on the speedboat where Lieutenant Callahan sings "The Ride of the Valkyries" was not in the script. Director Alan Myerson laughed so hard at Leslie Easterbrook's vocal improvisation between takes, that not only did Leslie and a cameraman have to grab Alan to prevent him from falling off the boat, but Alan also decided to use the opera singing as part of the scene itself.

Bobcat Goldthwait did not reprise his role of Zed due to not being able to come to a financial agreement with the producers. Because of this, the filmmakers believed that there was no point in bringing back Sweetchuck without Zed, and so Tim Kazurinsky ended up not being involved either. Bobcat later said that he skipped this sequel because the script lost focus and his character "would never talk like that."

Many of Matt McCoy's scenes were originally written for Steve Guttenberg.

(At around twelve minutes) Proctor hums the "Police Academy" theme tune as he folds his paper airplane. This was not originally part of the scene. The humming was later recorded by Lance Kinsey in-studio, and was added in post-production.

During the airport scene, the golf balls falling out of Commandant Lassard's golf bag were released by a mechanism activated by George Gaynes himself. The golf balls were dropped out, by pushing down on the head of a golf club connected to a tube of balls concealed in the bag's pocket, through a hole cut out of the bottom.

(At around fifty-one minutes) The parrot's "Hey, Dork!" line was voiced by Michael Winslow.

The Mal-Ankh-Ee Diamonds were named after Paul Maslansky.

(At around one hour and twenty-two minutes) When Captain Harris falls into the Everglades, he exclaims "That didn't hurt! That didn't hurt!" This was the catchphrase of Zed, who had appeared in the first three sequels.

(At around fourteen minutes) In his office, Captain Harris is seen polishing a stuffed armadillo. This is the official state small mammal of Texas, where G.W. Bailey hails from.

The movie's script and some promotional material lists Tony's full name as Tony Stark. The surname was edited out of the film, after it was discovered by Warner Brothers executives that "Tony Stark" was a registered trademark owned by Marvel, for use in their Iron Man comics.

The Academy scenes for this movie were filmed at a high school campus in Miami.

The book that Captain Harris is seen holding whilst "congratulating" Commandant Lassard on his mandatory retirement is a hardback copy of "3 Cheers for Me", the first novel in the Bandy Papers series written by Donald Jack.

(At around one hour and twenty-five minutes) When Harris goes to give Hightower a medal, Jones makes the sound of a horse as Harris passes him. This is clearly a reminder of the incident in Police Academy (1984), in which Harris was thrown right into a horse's ass.

The first shot of the academy front entrance was reused in Полицейская академия: Миссия в Москве (1994).

(At around forty-four minutes) When Harris' hat catches fire in the bar scene, a theatrical smoke effect was physically placed in G.W. Bailey's hat, while the flames were later created in post-production.

(At around one hour and twenty-three minutes) While filming the alligator wrestling scene in the Florida Everglades, Bubba Smith was scared that a real alligator might attack him underwater while wrestling the prop alligator. As soon as Alan Myerson yelled "cut", Bubba got out of the water as fast as he could. Smith also stated how he had trouble trying to swim G.W. Bailey to safety, as Bailey's struggling nearly caused Bubba to drown.

Michael Winslow (Jones), David Graf (Tackleberry), and George Gaynes (Commandant Lassard) are the only actors who appeared in all seven Police Academy movies. Winslow even goes a step beyond this, as he is the only actor to not only appear in all seven Police Academy movies, but also had a regular role on Полицейская академия (1997).

To cut down on costs, Warner Brothers only released "mono" sound tracked prints.

Harvey Korman was the first choice for the role of Tony, but was unavailable for the filming dates, leading to Rene Auberjonois being cast instead.

Drew Struzan created the concept for the official movie poster, but pulled out of the project when he was offered less money than for his work on previous films in the franchise. Artist Carl Ramsey was then hired to render the final version of the poster, based on Struzan's original design.

This is the last time we see Officer Tommy "House" Conklin in the franchise.

Early drafts featured a canine character called Clancy, a Miami police dog.

In early drafts, Mouse and Sugar were named Mike and Jack.

(At around forty-three minutes) During the limbo scene, Janet Jones had a "wardrobe malfunction" while crawling under the limbo bar. During the post-production process, a dark filter was matted over the portions of the frames showing her exposed breasts, so as to obscure the slip, thereby maintaining the film's PG rating.

Matt McCoy's character of Commandant Eric Lassard's nephew, Nick, marks the fourth member of the Lassard family to be in a Police Academy movie. Previously, we've seen Lassard's wife in Police Academy (1984) and Lassard's brother, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985).

Filming was temporarily suspended, due to Hurricane Floyd moving through Southern Florida in October 1987. While filming Proctor's scene atop the swaying tree outside Harris's office, strong winds picked up, causing the tree to sway more than planned. With news of the hurricane fast approaching, cast and crew were then sent home for their safety, until the dangerous weather conditions subsided a few days later.

As Commandant Lassard is an avid golfer, his goldfish is appropriately named Birdie.

In addition to doubling for Lance Kinsey during his water skiing scene, David Reinhart had also constructed the set used in that scene. A year later, Reinhart would perform another barefoot skiing stunt in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989).

Although the title of the movie refers to the City of Miami Beach, the "Mayor" character is referred to as the "Mayor of Miami" (portrayed by James Hampton), a completely different, although adjacent, city. Miami and Miami Beach have their own mayors and their own city governments.

Janet Jones (Officer Kate) wed hockey player Wayne Gretzky four months after this movie's release.

The first movie in the series where the location it takes place in is actually named (Miami Beach). This would not happen again until the seventh movie, which took place in Moscow. All the other movies take place in an unnamed American city.

Kathryn Graf's only film appearance.

(At around six minutes) Two of the officers' names mentioned by Commandant Lassard during the graduation ceremony are Bill Baker and Carla Brand Breitner; the First and Second Assistant Directors of this movie.

According to promotional material for this film, Officer Kate's surname is Stratton. Stratton was also the name of a character portrayed by Полицейская академия: Миссия в Москве (1994) actor Sir Christopher Lee in Death Line (1972), a film also produced by Paul Maslansky.

(At around one hour and fifteen minutes) Commandant Lassard asks Tony (Rene Auberjonois) if they met at the Toronto convention. Toronto was the filming location of Police Academy (1984).

Both G.W Bailey and Rene Auberjonois were in M*A*S*H, Bailey was Sgt Rizzo on the TV series and Auberjonois was Father Mulcahy in the film.

The Police Academy films follow one of two Narrative styles, the first style which is used in the first, third and fourth films, features the Academy prominently whilst the Bad Guys only appear at the end, whilst the second style used in the second, fifth, sixth and seventh films consists of brief uses of the Academy whilst the Bad Guys are featured throughout the film.

Steve Guttenberg and his Police Academy replacement Matt McCoy would co-star almost 30 years later in Season 3 of Футболисты (2015); the first time they had ever worked together.

The whereabouts of Mahoney are not addressed in the film.

Paul Maslansky: (At around fifteen minutes) Homeless man at museum.

Alan Myerson: cigar-smoking man on plane.