Wes Block, padre soltero y policía de Nueva Orleans, se enfrenta a un peligroso asesino y violador en serie y acaba convirtiéndose en su objetivo.Wes Block, padre soltero y policía de Nueva Orleans, se enfrenta a un peligroso asesino y violador en serie y acaba convirtiéndose en su objetivo.Wes Block, padre soltero y policía de Nueva Orleans, se enfrenta a un peligroso asesino y violador en serie y acaba convirtiéndose en su objetivo.
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- 1 nominación en total
- Penny Block
- (as Jennifer Beck)
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- CuriosidadesDirector Richard Tuggle had a habit of not wearing any underwear in muggy New Orleans. One day, standing up on a camera truck, Clint Eastwood noticed that Tuggle's private parts were hanging out of his shorts. In front of everybody, he ordered Tuggle to go back to his trailer and put on some underwear, pronto.
- PifiasDespite shooting on location in New Orleans, not one person in this movie has a regional Louisiana, New Orleans, or Cajun accent.
- Citas
Wes Block: Twenty-eight years ago I borrowed 40 dollars from my father, packed up an old, beat up suitcase, took a bus and came here. I was seventeen at the time. While I walked through the French Quarter, I looked out over the Mississippi and swore I'd never leave.
Beryl Thibodeaux: Ever come close?
Wes Block: Only once. When I looked down and saw that the suitcase was missing.
- Versiones alternativasABC edited 16 minutes from this film for its 1987 network television premiere.
While not altogether successful - it lacks the style and tension to make it something truly special - it is, at the least, a fairly interesting character study, of a character who's not squeaky clean. We see Wes' happy home life - he's a single father to two girls, and owner of several dogs - contrasting with the less appealing aspects of his existence. Writer / director Richard Tuggle, who'd scripted the earlier Clint vehicle "Escape from Alcatraz", does his best to give us a film that attempts to take a look at the "dark within all of us". There's even a line to that effect, spoken by a minor character played by Janet MacLachlan.
We do see the psycho (character actor Marco St. John, "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning", "Thelma & Louise") in the act of stalking a woman right from the get go, so there's no mystery about what he looks like. That does put a crimp in the suspense.
Clint does well in this unconventional hero role, doing solid work as always. He co-stars with his real life daughter Alison, and Jennifer Beck, as his kids, the typically excellent Dan Hedaya as his partner, and Genevieve Bujold as a tough talking counsellor at a rape centre, who naturally places herself in harms' way by becoming involved with Wes.
Where the film is its strongest is in its depiction of N.O., capturing the night life in an American city known for its atmosphere.
Not a great film by any means, but worth a look for Clint fans.
Seven out of 10.
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- 48.143.579 US$
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- 19 ago 1984
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