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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Rutger Hauer | ... | Nick Randall | |
| Gene Simmons | ... | Malak Al Rahim | |
| Robert Guillaume | ... | Philmore Walker | |
| Mel Harris | ... | Terry | |
| William Russ | ... | Det. Danny Quintz | |
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Susan MacDonald | ... | Louise Quintz |
| Jerry Hardin | ... | John Lipton | |
| Hugh Gillin | ... | Patrick Donoby | |
| Robert Harper | ... | Dave Henderson | |
| Eli Danker | ... | Robert Aziz | |
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Joseph Nasser | ... | Hasson |
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Suzanne Wouk | ... | Jamilla |
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Gerald Papasian | ... | Abdul Renza (as Gerald Papasyan) |
| Nick Faltas | ... | Amir | |
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Hammam Shafie | ... | Chemical Expert |
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This movie features a character who is a descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name. And like McQueen's Josh Randall, Hauer's Nick Randall is also a bounty hunter. & also an ex-CIA operative, who is asked by his former employer to help them track down a terrorist, Malak Al Rahim, who is in the country, and has already made a move. But he is also looking for Randall, and the people, whom Randall is working for, is telling Malak, where he can find Randall. Written by <rcs0411@yahoo.com>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
16 January 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Wanted Dead or Alive See more »Filming Locations:
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USAEdit
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[spits blood in Randall's face, Randall knees him repeated in the stomach]
Malak Al Rahim: I'm not a criminal, I'm a soldier and I deserve to die, like a soldier.
Nick Randall: [jams a grenade into Rahims mouth then wipes blood from his face with Rahim's scarf] Your not a soldier, your a fly on a pile of shit.
Nick Randall: [leading Rahim out to Lipton and other agents by the grenade pin] Less than a week and still alive you owe me some money.
John Lipton: [nervous and unsure but acting calm] Where shall I send the cheque?
Nick Randall: [...]
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Written by Joe Renzetti and Simon Stokes
Performed by Simon Stokes
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After waking up the first morning on his boat the "HMS Bounty", Rutger Hauer's Nick Randall character is wearing a Chicago Bears Super Bowl Champs For 1986 t-shirt. This implies that the movie was filmed and released very soon afterwards. See more »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. See more »Quotes
Malak Al Rahim: Come on, kill me.[spits blood in Randall's face, Randall knees him repeated in the stomach]
Malak Al Rahim: I'm not a criminal, I'm a soldier and I deserve to die, like a soldier.
Nick Randall: [jams a grenade into Rahims mouth then wipes blood from his face with Rahim's scarf] Your not a soldier, your a fly on a pile of shit.
Nick Randall: [leading Rahim out to Lipton and other agents by the grenade pin] Less than a week and still alive you owe me some money.
John Lipton: [nervous and unsure but acting calm] Where shall I send the cheque?
Nick Randall: [...]
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Doncha Know That ...?Written by Joe Renzetti and Simon Stokes
Performed by Simon Stokes
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This film to me was pretty good. It sort of is a bit like "Nighthawks" another film featuring terrorist, one of which being Hauer himself. This one though has Hauer as the good guy and Gene Simmons as the bad guy. Both are very good in their roles. Both never being or becoming super celebrities. Hauer has been in a lot more movies than Simmons and he has been in some very big movies during his days. Still, he rarely got to be the lead star in films. Simmons just played bad guys like the one here and the one in "Runaway". He was actually rather good in both films and I am surprised he never got more chances to play in movies cause I so could see him in a horror movie as the sadistic killer. This film has terrorist on the attack and a bounty hunter is going to be the one to bring them down. I loved watching Hauer as Nick Randall do his thing. He is a former CIA operative and a descendant of a legendary bounty hunter. The action is pretty good here and there, it could use a bit of work, but I still thought it played out rather well. The ending to this movie is really good, though at the same time while it is satisfying it is also a bit sad too.