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Nighthawks (1981)

DIRECTOR: Bruce Malmuth

CAST: Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer, Nigel Davenport, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta

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Nighthawks aims to be an edgy urban crime thriller combining the gritty, street-level action of Baretta or The French Connection with the international intrigue of The Day of the Jackal (in fact, at one point it was originally planned as The French Connection III), but is actually a rather half-baked and shallowly-plotted cops and killers yarn that squanders the underdeveloped potential of its premise.

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