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Anthony Zerbe, Charles Haid, David Opatoshu, Gail Strickland, Jonathan Banks ...( see more  see more... ) , Jose Carlos Ruiz , Michael Moriarty , Nick Nolte , Ray Sharkey , Richard Masur , Stuart Wilson , Tuesday Weld , Wings Hauser

Following the success of The Deep, in which he costarred with Jacqueline Bisset's wet T-shirt, Nick Nolte gummed up the star-maker machinery by recasting himself from sex symbol to commanding characte...( read more  read more... )r actor with this unrelentingly bleak, fatalistic post-Vietnam thriller based on Robert Stone's book Dog Soldiers. Nolte gives a ferocious performance as Ray Hicks, a Nietzche-reading merchant marine who reluctantly agrees to carry into the United States two keys of heroin for his friend, John Converse (a superb Michael Moriarty), a disillusioned journalist. Ray and John are "way out of their league," as a corrupt narcotics agent (Anthony Zerbe) sends two goons (the late, great Ray Sharkey, and Richard Masur, cast against type as a scuzzy psychopath) to hijack the heroin. Ray is forced to go on the run with John's anguished, pill-popping wife (Tuesday Weld in one of her best performances). A buried treasure, this is the kind of intense and uncompromising film that Nolte appeared in later in his notoriously roller-coaster career. --Donald Liebenson

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R, 126 min.

Directed by: Karel Reisz

Release Date: January 1, 1978

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DVD Release Date: July 10, 2001

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  • saltersheppard
    April 11, 2009
    saltersheppard
    One of my favorite movies. Nolte is riveting. Weld is haunting and Moriarty is perfection in this movie.
  • SarahJoyFrost
    December 9, 2006
    SarahJoyFrost
    Yeah, i'd like to see this, i think!

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