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Vigilante (1983)Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott... See full summary » Director:William LustigWriter:Richard Vetere |
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Eddie Marino
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| Fred Williamson | ... |
Nick
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Richard Bright | ... |
Burke
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| Rutanya Alda | ... |
Vickie Marino
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Don Blakely | ... |
Prago
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| Joseph Carberry | ... |
Ramon
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| Willie Colón | ... |
Rico
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Joe Spinell | ... |
Eisenberg
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| Carol Lynley | ... |
Assistant D.A. Mary Fletcher
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Woody Strode | ... |
Rake
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Vincent Beck | ... |
Judge Sinclair
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Bo Rucker | ... |
Horace
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| Frank Pesce | ... |
Blueboy
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| Steve James | ... |
Ptl. Gibbons
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Randy Jurgensen | ... |
Det. Russo
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Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and some of the factory's other workers have formed a vigilante group because Nick and the group are fed up with the pimps, gangs, and drug dealers who keep taking over the neighborhoods. Nick and his group are also sick and tired of the police, because the police always fail to protect people who become victims. Eddie goes home from work one night, only to discover that Vickie has been stabbed, and Scott has been shot dead. Frederico "Rico" Melendez, the leader of a Puerto Rican street gang, is arrested for Vickie's stabbing and Scott's murder. Assistant District Attorney Mary Fletcher plans to put Rico away for as long as possible, since New York doesn't have the death penalty. Nick tries to convince Eddie to join the vigilante group... Written by Todd Baldridge
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Nick: Hey, I don't know about you guys, but me... I've had it up to here. There are some 40-odd homicides a day on our streets. There are over two million illegal guns in this city. Man, that's enough guns to invade a whole damn country with. They shoot a cop in our city without thinking twice about it. Aw, come on. You guys ride the subway. How much more of this grief are we gonna stand for? How many more locks we gotta put on our goddamn doors? Now, we ain't got the police, the prosecutors, the courts or the prisons. I mean, it's over. The books don't balance. We are a statistic. Now, I'm tellin' ya, when you can't go to the corner store and buy a pack of cigarettes after dark... because you know the punks and scum are out there on the streets when the sun goes down, and our own government can't protect its own people, then I say this, pal: you got a moral obligation, the right of self-preservation. Now, you can run, you can hide, or you can start to live like human beings again. This is our Waterloo, baby! You want your city back? You gotta take it. Dig it? Take it!
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(Larry Rollins / Warren Thomas)
Performed by N.B.T. (Nuthin But The Truth)
Engineered by Bob Yesbeck
Omega Studios, Washington D.C. See more »
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In the scene where Fred Williamson is chasing Frank Pesce, Richard Bright hits him with what appears to be a real baseball bat. In fact, it's a plastic bat in which Bright actually hit Pesce on the ear and his face. His facial expressions were real. Pesce joking states on the DVD "He's swinging like an idiot...that fucking stung. He hit me thinking it was a real baseball bat. Lee Strasberg stuff". See more »Quotes
[first lines]Nick: Hey, I don't know about you guys, but me... I've had it up to here. There are some 40-odd homicides a day on our streets. There are over two million illegal guns in this city. Man, that's enough guns to invade a whole damn country with. They shoot a cop in our city without thinking twice about it. Aw, come on. You guys ride the subway. How much more of this grief are we gonna stand for? How many more locks we gotta put on our goddamn doors? Now, we ain't got the police, the prosecutors, the courts or the prisons. I mean, it's over. The books don't balance. We are a statistic. Now, I'm tellin' ya, when you can't go to the corner store and buy a pack of cigarettes after dark... because you know the punks and scum are out there on the streets when the sun goes down, and our own government can't protect its own people, then I say this, pal: you got a moral obligation, the right of self-preservation. Now, you can run, you can hide, or you can start to live like human beings again. This is our Waterloo, baby! You want your city back? You gotta take it. Dig it? Take it!
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"Smokin"(Larry Rollins / Warren Thomas)
Performed by N.B.T. (Nuthin But The Truth)
Engineered by Bob Yesbeck
Omega Studios, Washington D.C. See more »
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