The Dead Pool

Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target.

• Director: Buddy Van Horn
• Genre:Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:91 minutes

Cast

Clint Eastwood : Insp. ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan
Patricia Clarkson: Samantha Walker
Liam Neeson : Peter Swan
Evan C. Kim : Insp. Al Quan
David Hunt : Harlan Rook / Ed Butler

Fame finally catches up with Harry Callahan (Eastwood) whose testimony against crime kingpin Lou Janero (Anthony Charnota) puts Janero into prison. One night, Callahan is attacked by Janero’s men at a turnoff near the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge while driving. However, he knocks down one of them with his car and shoots the remaining men dead before they finish their jobs. Callahan and his new Chinese American, martial arts-skilled partner Al Quan (Evan C. Kim) are assigned to investigate the death of rock singer Johnny Squares (played by a then unknown Jim Carrey, credited as James Carrey).

After film director Peter Swan’s (Neeson) producer is killed in a Chinatown restaurant robbery which Callahan foils, Callahan discovers that he, together with Johnny Squares are part of a game in which participants try to predict the most celebrity deaths, presumably from natural causes or from those that work in dangerous professions, and in a turn of events, two more celebrities on the list are killed. Along the way Harry has to deal with the media (particularly reporter and later love interest Samantha Walker (Patricia Clarkson)), to balance their interference with the investigation against the public’s right to know. She also proposes to do an in-depth profile on Callahan for her news report, while he wants to simply perform his job and stay out of the limelight. After one dinner meeting, they narrowly escape being killed by Janero’s men in an elevator outside a restaurant, leading the reporter to reconsider the plight of police officers.

The following morning, Callahan drives to the prison where Janero is serving his sentence to meet with a chain smoking inmate named Butcher Hicks (who is very large and muscular). Callahan promises Hicks a carton of camel cigarettes if he helps Callahan out. When Callahan reaches Janero’s cell, he makes it clear to Janero that if something happens to Callahan, then Butcher will pay him a visit and probably kill him (this results in Janero telling his men to make sure nothing happens to Callahan while he is on duty). Read more

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