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RAW DEAL (1986) |
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MORGAN'S RATING |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger is Mark Kaminski, a former FBI agent forced to resign from the Bureau due to excessive violence. Now he's a small town sheriff trying to solve the murder of his friend, Harry Shannon's son by the Chicago mafia family, Petrovita. Kaminski fakes his death and infiltrates teh Petrovita family as a bodyguard. Eventually the family starts suspecting Kaminski and then try to involve him in a failed attempt to kill Harry Shannon. With his own brand of justice, Kaminski kills the head of the Petrovita family and is reinstated at the FBI for his heroic actions. |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger (Mark Kaminski / Joseph P. Brenner), Kathryn Harrold (Monique), Darren McGavin (Chief Harry Shannon), Sam Wanamaker (Luigi Patrovita), Paul Shenar (Rocca), Steven Hill (Lamanski), Joe Regalbuto (Baxter), Robert Davi (Max), Ed Lauter (Baker), Mordecai Lawner (Marcellino), Blanche Baker (Amy Kaminsky), Louise Robey (Lamanski's Girl), Victor Argo (Dangerous Man), George P. Wilbur, Denver Mattson (Killers), John Malloy (Trager), Lorenzo Clemons (Sgt.), Dick Durock (Dingo), Frank Ferrara (Spike), Thomas Rosales Jr. (Jesus), Jack Hallett (Carson), Leon Rippy (Man in Tux), Jay Butler (Rice), Norman Maxwell (Fake State Trooper), Tony DiBenedetto (Rudy), Tom Hull (Metzger), Mary Cannon (Saleswoman), Gary Houston, Greg Noonan (Petrovita Thugs), Steve Holt (Blair), Cedric Guthrie (Agent with Shannon), Sven-Ole Thorsen (Bodyguard, uncredited). |
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HIS TRIGGER HAS ALL THE ANSWERS. |
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION |
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DIRECTOR: John Irvin.
WRITERS: Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Donati, Gary De Vore and Norman Wexler.
PRODUCER: Martha Schumacher.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Cinemascore.
DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox |
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QUOTES |
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Monique: The only way you'll ever end up lying next to me, Max, is if we're run down by the same car. |
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Monique: Losing improves your character.
Kaminski: Winning improves your wardrobe. |
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FACTS |
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Kaminski: What do you think I look like, Dirty Harry? |
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RELEASE DATE: June 6th, 1986 (USA)
DVD RELEASE DATE: February 3rd, 2004 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $5.4 million (USA)
BOX OFFICE RESULT: $16.2 million (USA)
- The car that Arnold Schwarzenegger's character drives at the end of the film is the same car he steals in the movie Twins (1988) (minus the bull horns of course).
- A sign at the entrance of the oil refinery that Mark Kaminsky blows up at the beginning of the film reads "Irvin Oil Processing Company." The film was directed by John Irvin.
- The cassette tape that Schwarzenegger's character puts in the car stereo before entering The Gravel Pit at the end of the film is called "Street Life" by Jazz band The Crusaders. |
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Monique: When I want to make friends, I'll go to summer camp!
Patrovita: Smart I like. Smart aleck, I don't. |
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Kaminski: You should not drink and bake! |
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[Taking off Kaminski's shirt]
Monique: Oh...my...God! |
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Kaminski: Magic? ... or magnet!? |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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"Raw Deal is like another recent movie, Cobra. It replaces absolutely everything--plot, dialogue, character, logic, sanity, plausibility, art, taste and style-- with a fetish for nonstop action." -- Roger Ebert, Siskel & Ebert |
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"Stupid action movie...sense of humor helps, but not enough." -- Leonard Maltin. |
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"Raw Deal issuch a mess that it makes the Stallone osmatos movies look steamlined and efficient."
--John Hartl, Film.com |
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"A well done movie but it is undercut by it's poor acting."
-- Paul Hilditch, MovieThing.Com |
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