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In person: producer Lawrence Gordon
Director Walter Hill’s action classic focuses on street toughs framed for the murder of a charismatic gang leader and forced to flee to their Coney Island neighborhood. Working from a shrewdly minimalist script adapted by Hill and David Shaber from the novel by Sol Yurick, Hill and producer Lawrence Gordon (their other collaborations include 48 Hrs., 1982, and Streets of Fire, 1984) created a stylized vision of 1970s New York that remains one of the director’s most popular and influential films.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1979 | 94 min. | USA | Color | English | Rated R | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Walter Hill
WRITTEN BY: David Shaber, Walter Hill
WITH: Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Marcelino Sanchez