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While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
1981 · Directed by Brian De Palma · 108 min · Crime · Mystery · Thriller · 38 frames
Tagline
Murder has a sound all of its own.
Crew
- Written by: Brian De Palma, Bill Mesce Jr.
- Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
- Edited by: Paul Hirsch
- Music: Pino Donaggio
- Production design: Paul Sylbert
- Produced by: George Litto
Cast
- John Travolta as Jack Terry
- Nancy Allen as Sally Badina
- John Lithgow as Burke
- Dennis Franz as Manny Karp
- Peter Boyden as Sam
- John Aquino as Det. Mackey
- John McMartin as Lawrence Henry
- Deborah Everton as Hooker
- J. Patrick McNamara as Detective at Hospital
- Roger Wilson as Coed Lover
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Cinema 77, Geria Productions, George Litto Productions, Viscount Associates
- Budget: $18,000,000
- Box office: $12,000,000
- Themes: philadelphia, pennsylvania, hitman, presidential election, politics, audio tape, paranoia, faithlessness, yell, conspiracy, tape recorder
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