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Sharky's Machine
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
1981 · Directed by Burt Reynolds · 122 min · Crime · Drama · Action · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
Nobody leans on Sharky's Machine.
Crew
- Screenplay: Gerald Di Pego
- Cinematography: William A. Fraker
- Edited by: William D. Gordean, Dennis Virkler
- Music: Al Capps
- Production design: Walter Scott Herndon
- Produced by: Hank Moonjean
Cast
- Burt Reynolds as Tom Sharky
- Rachel Ward as Domino
- Henry Silva as Billy Score
- Brian Keith as Papa
- Vittorio Gassman as Victor Scorelli
- Charles Durning as Lt. Friscoe
- Earl Holliman as Donald Hotchkins
- Bernie Casey as Arch
- Richard Libertini as Nosh
- Darryl Hickman as Smiley
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Deliverance Productions, Orion Pictures
- Budget: $17,500,000
- Box office: $35,610,100
- Themes: martial arts, robbery, police, jazz, transvestism, gangster, finger, vice, revenge, murder
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