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Deadly Hero is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ivan Nagy released in USA on 14 december 1975 with Don Murray
Deadly Hero (1975)
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Add to a movie listDeadly Hero is a 1976 thriller movie starring Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala, Treat Williams, and directed by Ivan Nagy from a screenplay by George Wislocki and Don Petersen. Released in 1976 with an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, the film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures and is Treat Williams' film debut. Deadly Hero opened to mixed, mostly negative reviews by critics and was seen as a commercial failure.
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Officer Lacy (played by Don Murray) is an 18-year veteran of the New York City Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior. Responding to a call on Manhattan's West Side, he finds a young musician named Sally (Diahn Williams) has been abducted by a mugger named Rabbit (James Earl Jones). Rabbit has Sally at knifepoint in a hostage standoff but is persuaded to release her and surrender by Officer Lacy, who kills the unarmed Rabbit anyway. A grateful Sally is convinced by Lacy to lie to detectives to make Lacy seem like a hero. She later changes her mind and tells the truth about the shooting. This drives Lacy to try to silence Sally with escalating threats and violence before his career is ruined and he's tried for Rabbit's murder.Actors
Don Murray
(Edward A. Lacy)
James Earl Jones
(Rabbit Shazam)
Treat Williams
(Billings)
Lilia Skala
(Edna Broderick)
Conchata Ferrell
(Annie, the Bartender)
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