Cold Steel

This article is about the American thriller Cold Steel. For the power and thrash metal band of the same name, see Coldsteel . For the knife manufacturer of the same name, see Cold Steel (knife manufacturer)

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Movie
German title	Cold Steel
Original title	Cold Steel
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1987
length	87 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16/18
Rod
Director	Dorothy Ann Puzo
script	Michael Sonye
production	Lisa M. Hansen
music	David A. Jackson
camera	Thomas F. Denove
cut	David Bartlett
occupation
Brad Davis : Johnny Modine Sharon Stone : Kathy Connors Jonathan Banks : Iceman Jay Acovone : Cookie Adam Ant : Mick Eddie Egan : Lt. Hill Sy Richardson : Rashid Anne Haney : Anna Modine Ron Karabatsos : Fishman William Lanteau : Sam Modine Mindy Seeger : Wanda

Cold Steel (Alternative title on television: Kalt wie Stahl ) is an American action thriller directed by Dorothy Ann Puzo from 1987 .

action

Johnny Modine is a Los Angeles police officer. His father is murdered in a shop around Christmas time. Modine looks for the perpetrator on her own. He meets Kathy Connors who helps him with further investigations.

The trail leads to Iceman, who used to be a police officer. Iceman kidnaps Connors, who frees herself and kills the kidnapper.

Reviews

Film-Dienst wrote that some action scenes were fast-paced, but that there were “ unnecessarily brutal interludes ”.

Critics differed as to whether directing a woman reduced the number and brutality of the scenes of violence or whether Dorothy Ann Puzo worked like a man in this regard.

background

The box office earnings figures in US cinemas range from about $ 286,000 to about $ 1 million. The film was released on video in Germany.

literature

• Gebhard Hölzl, Thomas Lassonczyk: Sharon Stone: With "Basic Instinct" to success. Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-06551-4 , pages 51-56, 216-218

Web links

• Cold Steel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Cold Steel at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gebhard Hölzl , Thomas Lassonczyk: Sharon Stone: With "Basic Instinct" to success. Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-06551-4 , page 55
2. ↑ Gebhard Hölzl, Thomas Lassonczyk: Sharon Stone: With "Basic Instinct" to success. Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-06551-4 , pages 52-54
3. ^ Box office / Business for Cold Steel, accessed May 25, 2007
4. ↑ Gebhard Hölzl, Thomas Lassonczyk: Sharon Stone: With "Basic Instinct" to success. Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-06551-4 , page 51
5. ↑ Gebhard Hölzl, Thomas Lassonczyk: Sharon Stone: With "Basic Instinct" to success. Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-06551-4 , page 52