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Wanted: Dead or Alive

  • 19861986
  • RR
  • 1h 46m
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5.9/10
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Rutger Hauer in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986)
Bounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles, California movie theater. Nick quit the C.I.A. because he couldn't trust them. Can they be trusted now, and can he stop the terrorists?
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Bounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles, California movie theater. Nick... Read allBounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles, California movie theater. Nick quit the C.I.A. because he couldn't trust them. Can they be trusted now, and can he stop ... Read allBounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles, California movie theater. Nick quit the C.I.A. because he couldn't trust them. Can they be trusted now, and can he stop the terrorists?
IMDb RATING
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5.6K
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    • Gary Sherman
    • Michael Patrick Goodman
    • Brian Taggert
    • Gary Sherman
  • Stars
    • Rutger Hauer
    • Gene Simmons
    • Robert Guillaume
    • Gary Sherman
    • Michael Patrick Goodman
    • Brian Taggert
    • Gary Sherman
  • Stars
    • Rutger Hauer
    • Gene Simmons
    • Robert Guillaume
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    • 41Critic reviews
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    Rutger Hauer
    Rutger Hauer
    • Nick Randall
    Gene Simmons
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    • Malak Al Rahim
    Robert Guillaume
    Robert Guillaume
    • Philmore Walker
    Mel Harris
    Mel Harris
    • Terry
    William Russ
    William Russ
    • Det. Danny Quintz
    Susan MacDonald
    • Louise Quintz
    Jerry Hardin
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    • John Lipton
    Hugh Gillin
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    • Patrick Donoby
    Robert Harper
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    • Dave Henderson
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    • Robert Aziz
    Joseph Nasser
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    • Jamilla
    Gerald Papasian
    • Abdul Renza
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    Nick Faltas
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    • Amir
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    • Charlie Higgins
    Ted White
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    • Trivia
      Rutger Hauer played the descendant of the Josh Randall character, who was played by Steve McQueen on the western television series, Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958).
    • Goofs
      About a third of the way through, Nick and other policemen are trying to disarm a suspect holding seven sticks of dynamite only 100 feet away. The dynamite explodes much less than it should; seven sticks of dynamite would level a house, and everyone would have to be at least 300 feet away to avoid serious injury or death.
    • Quotes

      Philmore Walker: The next time you fuck me Lipton, kiss me first!

    • Alternate versions
      There exist two different version on videotape. One where Malak Al Rahim dies at the end, by having his head blown off, and one where this doesn't happen. The ending where Rahim doesn't die, is very tame, since the picture just fades to black, and then fades back in, with Randaal sitting somewhere pondering his fate.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Worst Films of 1986 (1987)
    • Soundtracks
      Live Bait
      Written by Joe Renzetti and Simon Stokes

      Performed by Delaney Bramlett

    User reviews49

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    During the 80's I saw every Rutger Hauer Movie
    and this is one of my favorites, although he look really big and out of shape he adds some real gravity and feeling to the lead role and his nemesis played by Gene Simmons is very effetive.

    Full of sensational one-liners, delievered with an absolute straight face by all involved, it is fast, furious, 80's action.

    My personal favorite (used it the other day) "next time give me a kiss before you f*ck me".

    In fact I'm off to the video store to rent it right now.

    Jimbo
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    • Release date
      • January 16, 1987 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • New World Pictures
      • Balcor Film Investors
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    • 1 hour 46 minutes
      • Color
      • Ultra Stereo

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