The Dead Pool
The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action flim directed by Buddy Van Horn, written by Steve Sharon, and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan. It is the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry film series, set in San Francisco, California.
Fame finally catches up with Harry Callahan. His testimony against crime kingpin Lou Janero puts the mobster in prison and Callahan on the cover of San Francisco Magazine as the citys ace crime fighter. Callahan is attacked by Janeros men at a turnoff near the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge while driving. He knocks down one with his car and shoots the remaining men dead. Callahan discovers he has been assigned a partner Asian American, martial artsskilled partner Al Quan Evan Kim. Unimpressed, he advises Quan to get a bulletproof vest, as his partners often get killed. They are assigned to investigate the death of rock singer Johnny Squares Jim Carrey, killed in his trailer outside a meatpacking plant during filming of a music video for a slasher film directed by Peter Swan Liam Neeson.Later, Dean Madison, Swans executive producer, is shot and killed during a Chinatown restaurant stickup. Harry and Quan see the holdup and rush to stop it. Harry manages to gun down four of the robbers inside the restaurant the one who manages to escape out the front door is subdued by Quan, an expert martial artist. Harry wryly compliments Quans skill, accepting him as his partner in fact. When they examine the dead producers belongings, they discover a list in his pocket with Harrys and Johnny Squaress names on it. It turns out that the dead producer and Swan are participants in a dead pool game, in which participants try to predict celebrity deaths, either by natural causes, old age, or as a result of working in dangerous professions. In a turn of events, another celebrity on Swans list, movie critic Molly Fisher, is stabbed and killed in her condominium by an intruder claiming to be Swan. ........
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