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Death Warrant is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Deran Sarafian released in USA on 14 september 1990 with Jean-Claude Van Damme
Death Warrant (1990)
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Add to a movie listDeath Warrant is a 1990 action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially.
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Detective Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Quebec, confronts the maniac that killed his partner on the force. The villain named Christian Naylor - called the Sandman (Patrick Kilpatrick) is tracked down to an abandoned house in Los Angeles. Although the Sandman nearly kills him, Burke is able to shoot the Sandman several times, but not killing him.Actors
Jean-Claude Van Damme
(Louis Burke)
Robert Guillaume
(Hawkins)
Cynthia Gibb
(Amanda Beckett)
Art LaFleur
(Sergeant DeGraf)
George Dickerson
(Tom Vogler)
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