The game of death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The game of death |
| Original title | The Dead Pool |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 (previously 18) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Buddy Van Horn |
| script |
Steve Sharon Durk Pearson Sandy Shaw |
| production | David Valdes |
| music | Lalo Schifrin |
| camera | Jack N. Green |
| cut | Ron Spang |
| occupation | |
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The Dead Pool (Original title: The Dead Pool ) is an American action - thriller from 1988. The film is the fifth part of a series of films in which Clint Eastwood plays the cop "Dirty" Harry Callahan.
action
Director Peter Swan invented a game in which he and his film team bet on the deaths of well-known people who are not entirely harmless. The so-called "death list" is in the possession of each of his employees. But the game becomes more serious when the leading actor in Swan's latest film, rock star Johnny Squares, and his production manager are murdered.
Now veteran inspector Harry Callahan has to deal with the case. Harry quickly finds out that he is also in danger as his name is also on the list. In addition, the killers of a mafia boss who has just been convicted by his testimony are also killing him. While he is on the trail of the perpetrator, attacks are carried out on him again and again, which he can usually only a hair avoid. After the murder of a film critic, Harry is the next in the killer's sights. But he escapes the bomb attack on his car. His Chinese-born partner, Al Quan, survived severely injured only because, on Callahan's advice, he wore a bulletproof vest.
Through a tip from Swan, the police track down the schizophrenic Harlan Rook, whose script for a new horror film Swan had once rejected. Since Harry survived the attack, Rook takes the attractive TV reporter Samantha Walker hostage in order to murder her. Callahan can free her, however, because he was able to determine his whereabouts from a slip of paper in Rook's apartment. At the end there is a life and death duel, in the course of which Harry is able to hunt down the killer using a prop from Swan's film, a harpoon.
Reviews
"A tough police film with questionable legal morality, straightforwardly staged, but only slightly above the level of conventional series crime novels."
background
The film grossed approximately $ 37.9 million in US cinemas .
The hard rock band Guns N 'Roses can be seen in several scenes in the film and their song Welcome to the Jungle is alluded to in the film.
Web links
- The Dead Pool in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Dead Pool at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Dead Pool at Metacritic (English)
- The death game in the online film database
- The death game in the German dubbing index
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - FSK 18 from Das Todesspiel at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Death Game. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Box office / business for The Dead Pool