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Convicted career criminal Albert Ganz is working as part of a road gang in California, when a tall Native American indian named Billy Bear drives up in a pickup truck and asks for water to cool off his truck's overheating radiator. Ganz and Billy exchange insults and proceed to stage a fight with each other, wrestling in a river, and when the guards try to break up the fight, Billy gives a gun to Ganz, and the pair kill two of the three guards and flee the scene. Two days later, Ganz and Billy kill Henry Wong (John Hauk), their associate. Later that same day, Inspector Jack Cates of the San Francisco Police Department's criminal investigation bureau joins two of his friends and co-workers Detective Algren and Detective Van Zant at the Walden Hotel to check out a man named G.P. Polson, who is in room 27. Jack waits downstairs while Algren and Van Zant head to room 27, where it turns out that G.P. Polson is Ganz. In the ensuing shootout, Ganz kills Algren and Van Zant, and escapes with Billy, taking Jack's revolver.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Action, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Comedy |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | D. Constantine Conte, Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon |
Directed By: | Walter Hill |
Written By: | Steven E. De Souza, Larry Gross, Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill |
Cast: | Brian O'Neal, Matt Landers, W.T. Zacha, Eddie Murphy, Denise Crosby, Gloria Gifford, Brenda Venus, Suzanne M. Regard, Jack Lightsy, Ola Ray, Clint Smith, Bennie E. Dobbins, Sandy Martin, Walter Scott, Bill Dearth, Kerry Sherman, John Hauk, Gary Pettinger, R.D. Call, Jack Thibeau, Nick Nolte, David Patrick Kelly, Rock A. Walker, B.G. Fisher, Margot Rose, Peter Jason, Luis Contreras, James Keane, Jon St. Elwood, Chris Mulkey, Frank McRae, Tara King, James Remar, Angela Robinson Witherspoon, Brion James, Jonathan Banks, John Dennis Johnston, Jim Haynie, Greta Blackburn, Marcelino Sánchez, Reid Cruickshanks, Nick Dimitri, Ned Dowd, Olivia Brown, Sonny Landham, Michael D. Jones, Bill Cross, Loyd Catlett, Todd Allen, Begonya Plaza, Annette O'Toole, Clare Nono |
In Theaters: | Dec 08, 1982 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 36 minutes |
Production: | Paramount Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions |
Budget: | $12,000,000 |
Box Office: | $78,868,508 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |