- Sharky's Machine (film)
Infobox Film
name = Sharky's Machine
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caption = Theatrical release poster
director =Burt Reynolds
producer = Hank Moonjean
writer =William Diehl Gerald Di Pego
narrator =
starring =Burt Reynolds Vittorio Gassman Rachel Ward Carol Locatell Brian Keith
music =
cinematography = William A. Fraker
editing = William D. Gordean
Dennis Virkler
distributor =Warner Bros.
released = December 18, 1981
runtime = 122 min
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
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amg_id = 1:44170
imdb_id = 0083064"Sharky's Machine" is a 1981 motion picture directed by
Burt Reynolds . Reynolds also starred in the title role of Sgt Tom Sharky. The movie is anadaptation ofWilliam Diehl 's first novel "Sharky's Machine" (1978), with ascreenplay byGerald Di Pego . Diehl, who was age fifty when he wrote the novel, saw the movie shot on location in and around his hometown ofAtlanta , GA. Its cast includedVittorio Gassman ,Brian Keith ,Charles Durning ,Earl Holliman ,Rachel Ward ,Bernie Casey ,Henry Silva , andRichard Libertini .It has been the most successful box-office release of a film directed by Burt Reynolds.
Plot
Tom Sharky is a narcotics cop in Atlanta who's demoted to vice after a botched bust. In the depths of this lowly division, while investigating a high-dollar prostitution ring, Sharky stumbles across a mob murder with government ties, and responds by assembling his downtrodden fellow investigators (Sharky's "machine") to find the leaders and bring them to justice before they kill off all his partners and witnesses, including Sharky himself.
Production
At 220 feet, the
stunt from Atlanta's Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel still holds up as the highest free-fall stunt ever performed from a building for a commercially-released film. The stuntman was the legendaryDar Robinson . Despite it being a record-setting fall, only the briefest moment of the beginning of the fall is used in the movie. The bulk of the fall from the skyscraper as shown on film is clearly of a dummy.A remake of the film is in production, directed by
Phil Joanou and produced byMark Wahlberg , tentatively scheduled for a 2008 release. [cite web
url=http://movies.about.com/od/moviesinproduction/a/sharkys040606.htm
title=The Burt Reynolds Movie Sharky's Machine Gets the Remake Treatment
author=Rebecca Murray
work=About.com ]References
External links
*imdb title|id=0083064|title=Sharky's Machine
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