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4.3/10   160 votes
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Director:

Jack Smight

Writers:

Gail Morgan Hickman (story)
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Release Date:

February 1987 (USA) more

Genre:

Action | Thriller | Crime more

Plot:

A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department. full summary | add synopsis

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User Comments:

Very average-poor, but personal classic more (4 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Robert Carradine ... Det. Barzak

Billy Dee Williams ... Det. Hazeltine
Valerie Bertinelli ... Teresa Barzak
Peter Graves ... Capt. Ferris

Doris Roberts ... Mrs. Barzak
Bobby Di Cicco ... Malcolm
Ray Girardin ... Lt. Kaminski
Barry Sattels ... DeCosta

Mykelti Williamson ... Casey (as Mykel T. Williamson)

Jon Gries ... Bobby Sweet (as Jonathan Gries)
Richard Minchenberg ... Lepidus
Michael Goodwin ... Pogue
LaGena Hart ... Blonde
Alex Rebar ... Boudreau
Artie Ripp ... Rotweiler
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Additional Details

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the blonde returns DeCosta's serve, another ball is bouncing in the lower right as he runs away from camera. more

Quotes:

Coroner: [Coroner is leading a group of cops through the morgue to a drawer] Visitors, Mendez. Rise & shine!
Det. Hazeltine: [Obviously nauseated] I hate morgues.
Lt. Kaminski: Yeah, that's him. Joseph Mendez, professional hit-man, worked free-lance.
Det. Barzak: Didn't like women or kids, either. This guy was a bad-ass.
Coroner: Really, because, I mean; he hasn't given me a bit of trouble.
[Slaps the corpse gently on the cheek as if to antagonize him]
Det. Hazeltine: Yeah, well... I guess we'd better be going.
Coroner: [Noticing Frank's nausea] Really, I was in the middle of ordering lunch before you guys came up here, uuh...
[Grabs up a phone & pretends to be ordering]
Coroner: Hi, yeah, uuh... Make it a pastrami & a small Sprite. You sure I can't interest you guys in anything?
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Kidnapped: Number One with a Bullet (#1.4)" (2006) more

Soundtrack:

Canyon Blues more


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2 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Very average-poor, but personal classic, 25 April 2003
Author: David Brook (dave_or_did) from Lincoln, England

Don't get me wrong, this is a horribly by the numbers, worthless and forgetable film, but in my circle of friends it has developed a cult classic status. This is due to a friend giving me repeated copies of it as gifts as a long running joke. This caused me and some other friends to make our own sequel to it, Number 2 With a Bullet, to give to him on his birthday. After showing our film to some more friends we then made another, Number 3 With a Bullet. We even plan to make another in the next month. These are crudely made pieces but are highly entertaining nonetheless (more so than the original it has to be said).

I hope that one day the makers of this poor buddy movie discover the legacy they have created (just as long as they don't sue).

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