Presidio (film)

Movie
German title	Presidio
Original title	The Presidio
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1988
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Peter Hyams
script	Larry Ferguson
production	D. Constantine Conte
music	Bruce Broughton
camera	Peter Hyams
cut	Diane Adler , Beau Barthel , James Mitchell
occupation
Sean Connery : Lt. Colonel Alan Caldwell Mark Harmon : Jay Austin Meg Ryan : Donna Caldwell Jack Warden : Sgt.Maj.Ross Maclure Mark Blum : Arthur Peale Dana Gladstone : Col. Paul Lawrence Jenette Goldstein : Patti Jean Lynch Marvin J. McIntyre : MP Zeke Patrick Kilpatrick : Mark Rick Zumwalt : beefy attacker in the bar

Presidio (original title The Presidio ) is an American action thriller from 1988 about a murder on a military base. Directed by Peter Hyams .

action

In the military base Presidio at the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco , the military policewoman Patti Jean Lynch is murdered when she investigated a burglary in the officers' club the base. Lt. Colonel Caldwell is assigned by the military to solve the case. At his side is the policeman Jay Austin. Austin does not have a good memory of Caldwell, as Caldwell was blamed for an incident during his military service on this very base without an examination and an officer was exonerated. When Austin falls in love with Caldwell's daughter Donna, the differences between the two grow bigger. In the murder case, Jay Austin suspects the officer Caldwell covered years ago. A case from the murder weapon seems to confirm the suspicion. When Austin tries to arrest the suspect, he is killed while fleeing in a car accident, with the driver of the vehicle being hit and miss.

The case is now closed for Austin, but not for Colonel Caldwell, who lacks the motive for the crime and suspects several people behind it, including the owner of the escape vehicle reported as stolen from the above. Murder. In fact, the two found other suspects through the motive and put them in a warehouse, where it turns out, among other things, that Sgt.Maj. Ross Maclure, a good friend and former military comrade of Colonel Caldwell, is one of the main actors in a smuggling affair.

Reviews

"Good direction and actors make up for some of the script's weaknesses and, surprisingly, often draw attention from external action to the psychology of the characters."

- Lexicon of international film

Trivia

As in many other Peter Hyams films, one of the supporting characters is called Spota. The name goes back to the maiden name of his wife, with whom Hyams has been happily married since 1964. Still, the Spota's character is almost always a villain. In Presidio, George Spota is a driver for a beverage company and a former military man involved in the murder case under discussion.

Web links

• Presidio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Comparison of the cut versions R-Rated and Unrated by Presidio at Schnittberichte.com
• Presidio in the German dubbing index

Individual evidence

1. ^ Presidio. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .