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A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.A legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.
Thomas G. Waites
- Officer Kelly
- (as Tom Waites)
John C. McGinley
- Sean Phillips
- (as John McGinley)
Henry Judd Baker
- Big Leroy
- (as Judd Henry Baker)
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- TriviaWe first see Richie Marks (Sam Elliott) while he is inside a movie theater showing The Soldier (1982), which was also directed by James Glickenhaus.
- GoofsAt night time, when Roland gets caught at the precinct stealing the evidence from the locker, the shot moves to an exterior shot which shows the precinct by day - very sunny - then cuts back to an interior shot, again at night.
- Quotes
Richie Marks: You know what this is?
Tommie: It's a gun! It's a gun!
Richie Marks: Yeah, and you're a fuckin' genius! Now listen up. This gun is clean, no serial number. So if I blow out what's left of your brain and chuck it in the East River, your case is closed. The people downtown are gonna file you under DSAF. "Did Society A Favor." Got it?
- Alternate versionsOn its first run past the Australian classification board, the film was rated R. To garner a wider audience, Hoyts removed approx. 1 minute of footage so that the film could get an M rating. The footage removed included the "condom" scene with the old jailer, all references to homosexuality and snitches being "turned out", the scene outside the porno theater where the Nicky Carr's right-hand man guns down the bystanders after the cops and the Russian roulette scene in the police station. this footage was never reinstated for the film's VHS or subsequent DVD release.
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Oh how I love a Glickenhaus flick, good or bad. He's like the Brian Trenchard Smith of America. Here, he excels again with another addictive flick. A black ex con, has been set up for the killing of a drug dealer, by a bad apple cop- a blue jean cop, though I really didn't stop to note it's meaning as I too wrapped up in the film, to really care. Slick lawyer (Weller) who's just such a watchable actor, teams up with a reckless aging cop (Elliott) who lives basically out of a cinema, to shut this bad cop down, where Elliott does his thing out there on the streets and Weller does his slick show in a courtroom, where these two contrasts blend well. Rebellious Elliott provides some of the electric thrills, if sending a roller coaster train, hurtling over the edge, or hanging off a lear jet forcing it back down, where it explodes immediately on landing. These are memorable moments, especially the jet one. Glickenhaus has a flair for action, and stunts, producing great addictive popcorn flicks, like Mark L Lester who indeed who's made his share. It's Weller's presence, that adds half the magic to the film, that came and went at the cinema, on about the same time as Elliott's other film, the Swayze, actioner, Roadhouse. Of course people will frown upon it, where others will find it forgettable. It's a pity, as this low key, 89 action pic, is one of those that deserves more attention, where Elliott's character should draw more attention to his hygiene.
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,068,039
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,017,800
- May 8, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $10,068,039
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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