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Devlin

  • TV Movie
  • 19921992
  • RR
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
215
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Devlin (1992)
ActionCrimeDrama
When a mayoral candidate is assassinated in New York, Frank Devlin has more than a professional interest in the case: Devlin and the candidate's father are bitter enemies. The investigation ... Read allWhen a mayoral candidate is assassinated in New York, Frank Devlin has more than a professional interest in the case: Devlin and the candidate's father are bitter enemies. The investigation quickly takes a deadly turn when Devlin finds he's the fall guy in an elaborate setup, and... Read allWhen a mayoral candidate is assassinated in New York, Frank Devlin has more than a professional interest in the case: Devlin and the candidate's father are bitter enemies. The investigation quickly takes a deadly turn when Devlin finds he's the fall guy in an elaborate setup, and is now the prime suspect in the killing. Double-crossed, pursued by both the police and t... Read all
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
215
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    • Rick Rosenthal
    • Roderick Thorp(book)
    • David Taylor(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Bryan Brown
    • Roma Downey
    • Lloyd Bridges
    • Rick Rosenthal
    • Roderick Thorp(book)
    • David Taylor(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Bryan Brown
    • Roma Downey
    • Lloyd Bridges
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    • 2User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Devlin (1992)
    Bryan Brown and Whip Hubley in Devlin (1992)
    Lloyd Bridges and Roma Downey in Devlin (1992)
    Larry A. McLean in Devlin (1992)
    Peter Radon in Devlin (1992)
    Whip Hubley in Devlin (1992)
    Lawrence Dane in Devlin (1992)
    Bryan Brown in Devlin (1992)
    Roma Downey in Devlin (1992)
    Bryan Brown and Roma Downey in Devlin (1992)
    Lawrence Dane in Devlin (1992)
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    Bryan Brown
    Bryan Brown
    • Frank Devlin
    Roma Downey
    Roma Downey
    • Eileen
    Lloyd Bridges
    Lloyd Bridges
    • Bill Brennan
    Whip Hubley
    Whip Hubley
    • Sam Lord
    Lawrence Dane
    Lawrence Dane
    • Art Wolfe
    Lisa Eichhorn
    Lisa Eichhorn
    • Anita Brennan
    Carole Shelley
    Carole Shelley
    • Charlotte Brennan
    Jan Rubes
    Jan Rubes
    • Vittorio Di Fabrizi
    Frances Fisher
    Frances Fisher
    • Maryellen
    Gary Howard Klar
    Gary Howard Klar
    • Bob Lederer
    Bruce MacVittie
    Bruce MacVittie
    • Dan Vega
    Robert Clohessy
    Robert Clohessy
    • Kevin McQuaid
    Robert Cicchini
    Robert Cicchini
    • Rizzo
    Perry Jobe
    • Sonny
    Peter Radon
    • Vincent Di Fabrizi
    Eduardo Gómez
    • Octavio Lopez
    Michael Currie
    Michael Currie
    • Major
    Stuart Clow
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    • Tom Quinn
      • Rick Rosenthal
      • Roderick Thorp(book)
      • David Taylor(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      A TV movie for the Showtime network.
    • Connections
      References Sea Hunt (1958)
    • Soundtracks
      Get the Hell Out
      Written by Julian Jackson

      Published by Julian Jackson Music

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    6/10
    Flowers don't need water to grow. They only need love.
    **SPOILERS**Making waves in his campaign for the Democratic Nomination as New York City's Mayor reform candidate Jack Brennan,Mark Melymic, ends up being blown away together with high priced call girl Jane Milburn,Julie Power, while engaging in an S&M session at the Palace Hotel.

    It was Jack's promise to rid the city of organized crime that turned out to be his death sentence. What's so ironic is that it's Jack's father "Big Bill" Bennan, Lloyd Bridges, who runs the NYC mob including it's top honcho, or Godfather, successful businessman Vincent Di Fabrizi, Peter Rubes. Det. Frank Devlin, Bryan Brown, got involved in this whole bloody mess by being on "Big Bill's" sh*t list. Besides being the late Jack Brennan's best friend Devlin is the estranged husband of "Big Bill's" somewhat mentally unstable daughter Maryellen, Frances Fisher, whom "Big Bill" accuses the recovering alcoholic Devlin of driving her to suffer a mental breakdown.

    We see right away that the entire mob, with help from the NYPD and the Mayor's Office, are setting up an unsuspecting Jack Devlin in his best friend reform candidate Jack Brennan's murder. It's only too bad that Det. Devlin doesn't see that as well. Devlin is so naive in what's being planned for him that he lets important information, like phone recordings, out in the open to be destroyed or erased that in fact would clear him in in being implicated in Jack Brennan's murder. The killer himself hotel busboy Octavio Lopez, Eduardo Gomez, is quickly dispatched as he's brought to Central Booking in downtown New York City. To make sure that Lopez's assassin is also silenced he also gets iced moments after he gunned down the drugged out former busboy.

    Despite him not being too hip to what's happening Det. Devlin with the help of his long suffering girlfriend Irish National Radio reporter Eileen O'Mally, Roma Downey, cracks the Jack Brennan murder case wide open together with about a dozen bad guys heads arms and legs. In the process Det. Devlin ends up with a number of busted bones himself including an ugly gash on his head resulting from a booby trap bomb, at the late Octavio Lopez's apartment, left for him.

    ***SPOILERS*** As both Devlin and Eileen uncover all the evidence leading up to Jack Brennan's murder, and the framing of Det. Devlin for it, it leads straight to City Hall and the Police Commissioner's office! It turns out that Mayor Alder, George R. Robertson, and Police Commissioner Rivera's, George Sperdakos, ties with both "Big Bill" Brennan and businessman Vittorio Di Fabrizi go back a long long way together with Det. Devlin's boss Capt. Art Wolf, Lawrence Dane. All three were involved some twenty years ago in the covering up of a brutal murder that in fact brought "Big Bill" Brennen into the position of being the city's major political king-maker that he's right now!

    Predictable big city police drama with the added attraction of seeing actor Lloyd Bridges re-create his famous role of scuba diver Mike Nelson in his top 1950's TV series "Seahunt". Bridges managed to do all that-swimming & sleeping with the fishes-without the aid of any scuba diving equipment but with a motorized wheelchair.
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      • September 12, 1992 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production company
      • Viacom Productions
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    • 1 hour 50 minutes
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      • Dolby

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