Hurricane Smith (1992 film)

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Hurricane Smith
Hurricane Smith FilmPoster.jpeg
Theatrical film poster
Directed byColin Budds
Written byPeter A. Kinloch
Kevin James Dobson
Produced byDaniel O'Toole
Stanley O'Toole
Starring Carl Weathers
Jürgen Prochnow
Cassandra Delaney
Tony Bonner
Cinematography John Stokes
Edited byPippa Anderson
Music by Brian May
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release dates
  • 31 January 1992 (1992-01-31)(U.S.)
  • 9 April 1992 (1992-04-09)(Australia)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$5 million [1]
Box officeA$89,467 (Australia)

Hurricane Smith (also known as Dead on Delivery) is a 1992 Australian action film directed by Colin Budds and starring Carl Weathers as an American oil field worker named Billy 'Hurricane' Smith who travels to Australia on a quest to rescue his sister, where he gets mixed up with drug smugglers.

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Plot

An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in May 1990.

Box office

Hurricane Smith grossed $89,467 at the box office in Australia. [2]

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References

  1. "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, August 1990 p71
  2. "Film Victoria // supporting Victoria's film television and games industry – Film Victoria" (PDF). film.vic.gov.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2010.