Deadly arrest (Death Warrant) - 1990
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Detective Burke engages in an abandoned house, a dangerous psychopath and murderer nicknamed the Sandman. Although the Sandman nearly Burke manages to kill, it can eventually destroy a detective when he shoots. Sixteen months later, Burke joins a special unit for special tasks, ordered by a governor and assigned the task to investigate a large number of killings that have recently been occurring in Harrison prison. Burke is in strict incognito transported to jail as a new prisoner and his contact with the group provides only attorney Amanda Beckett, who acts as his wife. And because the two had not fallen too much in the eye, it looks fake their marriage very credible. For bars, surrounded by dirt, hostility and mistrust, with Burke through perfect control of Asian martial arts can help a few prisoners, from whom in return receives assistance with the investigation. Are there other murders, and the situation becomes increasingly dangerous. It Burkův murdered fellow and he ends in solitary confinement, where he is brutally interrogated and tortured. And it is transferred to the prison Sandman, so it's only a matter of short time before it comes out of his incognito, and he finds himself in jeopardy of life. When Burke is able to determine that the prisoners are killed because the authorities will find Beckett sheer coincidence that the case is also implicated her boss, the chief prosecutor Vogler.
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Genre: Action
Further information: Canada / USA, 1990, 93 min
Directed by: Deran Sarafian
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme (Louis Burke), Robert Guillaume Guillaume (Hawkins), Cynthia Gibb (Amanda Beckett), George Dickerson (Tom Vogler), Art LaFleur (Sergeant DeGraf), Patrick Kilpatrick (Christian 'The Sandman' Naylor) Al Leong (Bruce), Thomas Rosales Jr. (punk), Kamel Krifa (Keel)
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