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99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)

Director: John Frankenheimer

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From Time Out Film Guide

A further chapter in the decline of a brilliant '60s director, with Frankenheimer here aping the more surefire gangland milieu treats of Siegel and Boorman. Harris, with O'Brien and Dillman as rival bosses, plays a hitman contracted to sort out a gangland war in a coyly futuristic environment of urban decay. Snappily edited chase and crash sequences, shot with Frankenheimer's familiar command of distorting lenses, make for the best moments in a film which looks as if it had been designed by Hugh Hefner, inflatable women and all. Harris goes through his usual long-suffering trauma as the peerless protagonist.

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Cast & crew

Director: John Frankenheimer

Producer: Joe Wizan

Cast: Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Chuck Connors, Constance Ford, David Hall, Max Kleven full cast

Genre(s): Thrillers

Duration: 98 mins


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