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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
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.
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
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