Quiet Cool (1986) [R]

Release Date:
November 8, 1986

Original Title:
Quiet Cool

Genres:
Action | Crime

Production Companies:
New Line Cinema

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: R 

Runtime: 80

It can get you rich, get you high, or get you dead.

This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.

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Art Direction:
Lynda Burbank
J. Rae Fox

Assistant Makeup Artist:
S. Sue Elliott

Associate Producer:
Sara Risher

Costume Design:
Darcee F. Olson

Delegated Producer:
Arthur M. Sarkissian

Director:
Clay Borris

Director of Photography:
Jacques Haitkin

Editor:
Bob Brady

Executive Producer:
Arthur M. Sarkissian
Pierre David
Larry A. Thompson

Makeup Artist:
Donn Markel
June Brickman

Original Music Composer:
Jay Ferguson

Producer:
Gerald T. Olson
Robert Shaye

Production Manager:
Allen Alsobrook

Set Decoration:
Marcie Begleiter

Sound Designer:
David Lewis Yewdall

Sound Editor:
F. Hudson Miller
Kelly Tartan

Sound Engineer:
Jonathan D. Evans

Sound Mixer:
Walt Martin
Peter K. Wolff

Stunts:
Charles Croughwell
Brian Smrz

Supervising Sound Editor:
R.J. Palmer

Title Designer:
Dan Perri

Writer:
Susan Canova Vercellino
Clay Borris

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