Hangfire

January. 11,1991      R
Rating:
4
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When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.

Brad Davis as  Sheriff Ike Slayton
Ken Foree as  Billy
Kim Delaney as  Maria Montoya Slayton
Lee de Broux as  Kuttner
Jan-Michael Vincent as  Colonel Johnson
James Tolkan as  Patch
George Kennedy as  Warden Barles
Yaphet Kotto as  Police Lieutenant
Lou Ferrigno as  Smitty
Lyle Alzado as  Albert

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Reviews

Crwthod
1991/01/11

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
1991/01/12

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Roxie
1991/01/13

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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Geraldine
1991/01/14

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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