The Dead Pool (1988)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Buddy Van Horn

Escritores (WGA):

Harry Julian Fink (characters) and
Rita M. Fink (characters) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

13 julio 1988 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Crimen | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Dirty Harry Just Learned A New Game

Plot:

Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target.

Plot Keywords:

Reporter | Murder | Prison | Mafia | Drug Overdose

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Eastwood's last "Dirty Harry"

Reparto

Clint Eastwood	...	Insp. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan
Patricia Clarkson	...	Samantha Walker
Liam Neeson	...	Peter Swan
Evan C. Kim	...	Insp. Al Quan
David Hunt	...	Harlan Rook / Ed Butler
Michael Currie	...	Capt. Donnelly
Michael Goodwin	...	Lt. Ackerman
Darwin Gillett	...	Patrick Snow
Anthony Charnota	...	Lou Janero
Christopher P. Beale	...	Dist. Atty. Thomas McSherry
John Allen Vick	...	Lt. Ruskowski
Jeff Richmond	...	Freeway Reporter #1
Patrick N. Van Horn	...	Freeway Reporter #2 (as Patrick Van Horn)
Sigrid Wurschmidt	...	Freeway Reporter #3
Jim Carrey	...	Johnny Squares (as James Carrey)

También conocida como:

Dirty Harry in The Dead Pool (USA) (poster title)
La lista negra (Spain) [es]

Duración:

91 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Spain:18 | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | USA:R (certificate #29247) | Singapore:PG (cut) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1989) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1988) | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:12 | France:Unrated | Germany:16 (re-rating) (2008) | Australia:M | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | West Germany:18

Locaciones de Filmación:

1954 Mason Street, North Beach, San Francisco, California, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

Permission was given to film in San Francisco, despite protests from citizens who thought Harry Callahan was not a good representative for the city.

Errores:

Boquete en la Historia: When the killer attacks the victim in his Mercedes, after the Mercedes is blown up the camera pans around the wreckage, there is no burning body, nothing - yet, when the killer attacks with the RC car bomb, Callahan and Quan are seen with only minor injuries and bodies intact, despite the fact that both Callahan and Quan could have ran from the car before the bomb went off.

Citas:

Butcher Hicks: [Harry pays Hicks his box of smokes for just standing] That's it?
Harry Callahan: That's it. Oh, you see that dirtbag I was talking to down there?
[points to Janero]
Harry Callahan: He says that smoking can cause cancer, and anyone who smokes as much as you do is one dumb son-of-a-bitch!
[Hicks growls menacingly and stares daggers at Janero who shuts himself back in his cell]

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "20 to 1: Memorable Movie Characters (#3.11)" (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

Eastwood's last "Dirty Harry"

In the final Dirty Harry movie, Inspector Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is annoyed by his new-found fame, caused by his court testimony against an important mob figure. His next case is a real winner: an obnoxious British director (Liam Neeson) has a "dead pool" on the set of his new horror flick. Each crew member picks ten celebrities they believe will die, and the one with the most dead celebs on their list at the end of the game is the big winner.

Just one problem with this - the people on the director's list start dying at an alarming rate and mysteriously, including his leading man. And guess whose name is on the list as well - yeah, Harry's.

If this isn't enough, a TV reporter (Patricia Clarkson) wants to do a big story on him.

Directed by Buddy van Horn, "The Dead Pool" is a spoof of a sort, killing a movie critic as part of the story (ouch), and the story actually concerns movie-making. It also has a car chase that's a take-off on "Bullitt." The stereotypical characters found in this type of film are played by some excellent actors, and there's plenty of sexual innuendo to go around.

Someone mentioned that Eastwood seems a little old here for Dirty Harry. He seems old for just about every role he plays, frankly, but he keeps playing them. It's always amazing how men are able to do this with no problem, but give the man his due. He's a great presence, and in 1988, his best work as both a director and an actor was yet to come! Very entertaining and well-acted. If you can get the joke, you'll enjoy it all the more.