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Writers:
Ernest Brawley (novel)
James B. Harris (writer)
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Release Date:
28 January 1983 (Finland) more
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A corrupt prison guard becomes involved in a plot to murder a black revolutionary serving time in his prison. | add synopsis
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If You Loved the Book, You'll Hate the Movie! more (5 total)

Cast

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James Woods ... Fast-Walking
Tim McIntire ... Wasco
Kay Lenz ... Moke

Robert Hooks ... William Galliot
Charles Weldon ... Officer Jackson

M. Emmet Walsh ... Sergeant Sanger
Susan Tyrrell ... Evie
John Friedrich ... Squeeze
Lance LeGault ... Lieutenant Barnes

Timothy Carey ... Bullet
Deborah White ... Elaine Schector
Sandy Ward ... Warden
Sydney Lassick ... Ted
Helen Page Camp ... Ted's Wife

K Callan ... Motel Manager
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USA:115 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Kim Basinger was offered the female lead role but declined. more

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If You Loved the Book, You'll Hate the Movie!, 23 October 2007
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Author: bux from Tecumseh ok

THE RAP, the book this movie was 'based' on was one of the most difficult books I've ever read. Yet I could not put it down. Raunchy, crude, foul, lewd...you name it, it had it. It also had some of the best characterizations of any novel I've ever read.

Well, as for the flick...it was deplorable. I mean, Tim Mcintire as Wasco? Wasco was the baddest mutha...talking 'bout WASCO...Mcintire as Wasco is like casting Tim Conway as Charles Manson.

What happened to the MAIN character in the book? Little Arv. He doesn't even exist in the movie...Fast Walking WAS NOT the main dude in the book. Why even name credit this thing with THE RAP? None of the spirit, atmosphere, nastiness, or drama of the book was captured in this movie.

For me it was not only a disappointment, but a total waste of time and celluloid.

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