Nightstick (film)

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Nightstick
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Written byJames J. Docherty
Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
Starring Bruce Fairbairn
Kerrie Keane
Walker Boone
Leslie Nielsen
Robert Vaughn
John Vernon [1]
Music by Robert O. Ragland
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerMartin Walters
Cinematography Robert Fresco
Editors
  • Daniel Radford
  • Richard Wells
Running time95 minutes
Production companies
  • Calfilm Productions Ltd.
  • Screenvest I
Original release
ReleaseSeptember 1987 (1987-09)

Nightstick, also released as Calhoun, is a 1987 Canadian-American made-for-television action film which had theatrical release and later released to video and to theaters outside the United States. [2] Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan, the film stars Bruce Fairbairn, Kerrie Keane, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Vaughn, and John Vernon. [3]

Contents

Under the working title of Cahoun, production began December 1986 shooting on locations in Toronto and New York. [4]

Plot

Jack Calhoun (Bruce Fairbairn) is a "renegade cop" assigned by his boss Thad Evans (Leslie Nielsen) to ward off a group of terrorists.

Cast

Reception

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References

  1. "Nightstick (1987)".
  2. Nash, Jay Robert; Nash, Stanley Ralph (1988). The Motion Picture Guide ... Annual. Cinebooks. p. 204. ISBN   9780933997165.
  3. Nash, Jay Robert (1 April 1997). The Motion Picture Guide 1988 Annual: The Films of 1987. Cinebooks. p. 204. ISBN   978-0-933997-16-5.
  4. Pecchia, David (31 December 1986). "The Movie Chart". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 8 July 2016.