Death Warrant
The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate in some murders of prisoners and jailors…
- Director: Deran Sarafian
- Genre:Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery
- Runtime:85 minutes
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme : Louis Burke
Robert Guillaume : Hawkins
Cynthia Gibb : Amanda Beckett
George Dickerson : Tom Vogler
Art LaFleur : Sergeant DeGraf
Detective Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme) confronts a maniac called the Sandman (Patrick Kilpatrick) in an abandoned house. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, the partner of a cop that the Sandman killed, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet (or two).
Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison State Prison in California. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett (Cynthia Gibb) acts the role of his wife. Burke and Beckett don’t care for each other much in the beginning.
In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in a dismal and dangerous environment. Even though he is surrounded by hostility and suspicion, Burke succeeds in befriending a few of the inmates, including Hawkins (Robert Guillaume) and Priest (Abdul Salaam El Razzac), who help him with the investigation. Meanwhile, more inmates are mysteriously murdered (with one being set on fire in his own cell). Burke’s cellmate Konefke (Conrad Dunn) is killed, and stone-faced racist prison guard DeGraff (Art LaFleur) puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he’s interrogated and beaten. As if the insult and injury that Burke endures were not enough, the Sandman ends up at Harrison.
It is later revealed that the prisoners are being murdered for their body organs. Back on the outside, Beckett attends a party given by Vogler (George Dickerson), the state’s attorney general. Just as she’s preparing to tell him about the slayings at the prison, Beckett receives a call from her computer whiz kid assistant, who identifies Vogler’s henchman Keane (Jack Bannon) as the man behind the murders, which also involve Dr. Gottesman (Armin Shimerman), the surgeon who harvests the organs to be sold to people who are in desperate need of them. Read more
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