Un poliziotto sta scappando per sopravvivere abbastanza a lungo da pareggiare i conti con l'assassino di sua moglie.Un poliziotto sta scappando per sopravvivere abbastanza a lungo da pareggiare i conti con l'assassino di sua moglie.Un poliziotto sta scappando per sopravvivere abbastanza a lungo da pareggiare i conti con l'assassino di sua moglie.
- Carl
- (as Joseph Spallina Roman)
- Tony Vincenzo
- (as Chris De Rose)
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- QuizWhen there would be delays between takes, Charles Bronson would often get frustrated and could be heard saying "Let's shoot! Let's shoot!" causing the crew to scramble. One reason for this is that family man Charles Bronson liked to go home after shooting each day and have dinner with his family.
- BlooperMurphy and Arabella leave Murphy's friend's cabin (right before he's murdered by Joan Freeman) and that very evening, Arabella sees a newspaper with the heading "Escaped Cop Kills Again". The newspaper even writes that Arabella is his accomplice. However, there's no reason for the police to assume that the murderer was Murphy. Joan Freeman shoots the victim with his own rifle, not Murphy's gun. Moreover, it's highly implausible that the police could even know about a murder in a very remote cabin in the woods, make inquiries and somehow mark Murphy as a suspect, and get the story into the evening papers, all in the space of a few hours.
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Frank Vincenzo: [threateningly] Oh, Murphy, let me ask you: you ever hear of Murphy's law? "If anything can possibly go wrong, it will." A lot of things could happen to someone like you: you can get run over by a truck; the gas heater in your apartment could blow up; or you could lose a wheel going down the freeway at 80 miles an hour. Got to remember that.
[Murphy, unimpressed by the mobster's threats, bends forward, smiling]
Jack Murphy: The only law I know is "Jack Murphy's law." It's very simple: don't *fuck* with Jack Murphy. You remember that.
- Colonne sonoreMurphy's Law
Written and Performed by Paul McCallum, Kathleen Wilhoite and John Bisharat
With this team, you expect some pretty straightforward, and effectively sleazy, entertainment. It's fairly violent as well as exploitative (ever delectable Angel Tompkins, as Jacks' ex-wife Jan, plays a stripper and shows off some of the goods). Gail Morgan Hickmans' story is diverting, throwing in a subplot involving a mobster named Frank Vincenzo (Richard Romanus) and creating a reasonable body count.
What gives this otherwise formulaic scenario a shot in the arm is the give and take between Bronson and the sexy, husky voiced Wilhoite. She's constantly firing off insults at him. While they were much more profane in the original script, Wilhoites' one-liners are still ridiculously funny. And you can see that Bronson is having some fun with this premise. It's not often that he had a full blown sidekick in one of his vehicles.
Other familiar faces that turn up include Robert F. Lyons, Bill Henderson, James Luisi, Janet MacLachlan, and Lawrence Tierney. It is somewhat novel that our vengeance crazed villain is female, and Snodgress is just fine as the kind of psycho who's *well aware* that they're a psycho.
Capped off by a finale that offers up some fairly good suspense, and a typically amusing Bronson quip.
Wilhoite gets an "introducing" credit, although she'd actually made her film debut in "Private School" three years previous. She also belts out the theme song over the end credits.
Seven out of 10.
- Hey_Sweden
- 11 gen 2017
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- Budget
- 6.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 9.947.631 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 3.388.907 USD
- 20 apr 1986
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 9.947.631 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 40 minuti
- Mix di suoni
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- 1.85 : 1