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Hurricane Smith | |
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Directed by | Colin Budds |
Written by | Peter A. Kinloch Kevin James Dobson |
Produced by | Daniel O'Toole Stanley O'Toole |
Starring | Carl Weathers Jürgen Prochnow Cassandra Delaney Tony Bonner |
Cinematography | John Stokes |
Edited by | Pippa Anderson |
Music by | Brian May |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | A$5 million [1] |
Box office | A$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.
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.
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The film was shot in May 1990.
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Hurricane Smith grossed $89,467 at the box office in Australia. [2]
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