Details

Release year: 1989

Storyline

After airline mechanic James Rainwood is framed by two corrupt police officers, he begins plotting his revenge against them.

Top credits

Directors

Peter Yates

Writers

Larry Brothers

Cast

Tom Selleck — Jimmie Rainwood
F. Murray Abraham — Virgil Cane
Laila Robins — Kate Rainwood
David Rasche — Mike Parnell

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Did you know

• Many of the film's prison scenes were filmed at the old Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Jail, also known as the "Cincinnati Workhouse", had been permanently closed prior to the location filming of the movie. It had been built during the Civil War to house enemy troops and was still in use by Hamilton county and Cincinnati area police agencies as a jail as late as the 1970s. It was closed due to being "inhumane, cruel and unusual" by modern jail standards.

• The prison gym scene where Tom Selleck's character works up the nerve to kill the other inmate, was filmed at Norwood Jr. High School (formally Norwood High School, currently Norwood Middle School), Norwood, Ohio, in the original men's gym. Built circa 1912, the gym is the only one of its kind in the Cincinnati area with a running track suspended above the gym and bolted to the wall about 30 feet from the ceiling.

• Robert Duvall and David Carradine turned down the role of Virgil Cane.