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The Punisher (1989) [R]

Release Date:
October 5, 1989

Original Title:
The Punisher

Alternate Titles:
Der Punisher
El vengador
مأمور مجازات
پانیشر
惩罚者
特警威龍
血流成河

Genres:
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
New World Pictures
Robert Mark Kamen Productions

Production Countries:
Australia | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
BR: 18  DE: 18|16  DK: 15  ES: 18  FR: 12  GB: 18  IE: 18  JP: PG12  PT: M/18  US: R 

Runtime: 89

If society won't punish the guilty, he will.

Overview from TheMovieDB

The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. His ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast and became the Punisher, living in the sewers and exacting vigilante violence against mob bosses throughout the city. When the populace is caught in the midst of a gang war that he caused, Castle must again emerge from the shadows and save the innocent.

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Production

Art Direction:
Peta Lawson

Associate Producer:
Simon Heath
Mace Neufeld

Casting:
Melissa Skoff

Characters:
John Romita Sr.
Gerry Conway
Ross Andru

Co-Producer:
Su Armstrong

Costume Design:
Norma Moriceau

Director:
Mark Goldblatt

Director of Photography:
Ian Baker

Editor:
Tim Wellburn

Executive Producer:
Barry Bernardi
Robert Guralnick

Hairstylist:
Joan Petch
Jan Zeigenbein

Makeup Artist:
Sherry Hubbard
Cassie Hanlon

Makeup Supervisor:
Vivien Mepham

Music:
Dennis Dreith

Producer:
Robert Mark Kamen

Production Design:
Norma Moriceau

Prosthetic Makeup Artist:
Brian Bertram

Sound:
David Lee

Stunt Coordinator:
Chris Anderson

Stunt Double:
Spike Cherrie
Kim Maree Penn
Corinne Le Gall

Stunts:
Zev Eleftheriou
Zenda Graves
Steve Brown
Dar Davies
Connie Gower
Sinn Chew
Tom Coltraine
Jed Armstrong
Kerry Blakeman
Mitch Deans
Kerry Coleman
Chan Chuek Wan
Chris Anderson
Peter Culpan
Roy Edmunds
Brian Ellison
Russell Allen
Chan Cheuk-Fai
Jade Clayton
Tokujun Ishi
Claude Lambert
Don Vaughn
Jay Uk Kang
Ho Win Lee
Paul Lennon
Robin Menzies
Lawrence Woodward
Bernard Ledger
Ian Lind
Wayne Pleace
Greg Skipper
John Kingston
George Novak
Joe Pampanella
Johnny Raaen
Hide Hirayama
Ray Jones
Arch Roberts
Shirley Wallace
Leigh Hodgkinson
Mamora Kaneko
Phil Meacham
Ian Schrivers
Iain Strutt
Douglas 'Rocky' McDonald
Warren Shellback
Tony Yuen
Kazuo Saito
Robert Simper
Aki Tannaka
Shun Ogawa
Joe Schwarger
Koh Beng Soon
Greg Stuart

Utility Stunts:
Luke Quinton

Visual Effects:
Roger Cowland

Writer:
Boaz Yakin

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