The Mighty Quinn (film)

The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 thriller film starring Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The screenplay by Hampton Fancher is based on A. H. Z. Carrs 1982 novel Finding Maubee. In the film, Washington plays Xavier Quinn, a police chief who tries to help his childhood friend Maubee Townsend after he becomes a murder suspect.

Xavier Quinn Denzel Washington is the chief of police on a small, unnamed Caribbean island the novel was set on the fictional island of St. Caro. When Donald Pater, the millionaire owner of a luxury resort hotel, is found murdered, everyone assumes that the culprit is Maubee Robert Townsend, a petty crook who also happens to be Quinns best friend. Quinn doesnt believe it and clashes with the local bureaucracy Thomas Elgin James Fox, an arrogant political fixer, and the islands underqualified governor Norman Beaton. Quinns worries over the murder exacerbate his troubles at home he is estranged from his wife, Lola Sheryl Lee Ralph, and rarely has time to see his son.Maubee eludes the police at every turn, even appearing personally to Xavier now and again, before running off. On one of these occasions, Quinn questions a witness afterward, who says that Maubee was carrying a 10,000 bill, despite there being no such thing. Trying to track down Maubee, Quinn questions Ubu Pearl Esther Rolle, the local witch and aunt of Maubees current girlfriend, Isola and Hadley Elgin Mimi Rogers, Thomass wife, who feels a powerful attraction to Quinn. The governor also introduces Xavier to Fred Miller M. Emmet Walsh, an affable American said to represent the murdered mans company. ........

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