DEAD BANG, loosely based on a true story, is a fun, tongue-in-cheek cop melodrama held together by Johnson's entertaining performance. Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on.
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The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, and Robert. When he can't stop laughing because he thinks the man looks like Woody Allen, it seems that Jerry's days on the case are numbered. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Flemings 1964 novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car. Because of his sometimes unorthodox methods, Jerry is asked by his commander to be cleared for duty by the police psychiatrist or be taken off the case. The detective's investigation is joined by FBI agent Kressler (William Forsythe), a by-the-book type who does little but get in Jerry's way. His research turns up the name Bobby Burns (Frank Military), a member of a white-supremacist organization who's currently on his way to a mass gathering of like-minded hate junkies in Oklahoma. cop also goes down Jerry is assigned to both cases. Producer Steve Roth wrote a letter to the editor, which was published in the LAT, defending of actor Don Johnson, who was the subject of a negative news article in the newspaper on, implying that director Frankenheimer and Roth had not wanted to cast Johnson in the. On Christmas Eve, an African American storekeeper is murdered, and, minutes later, an L.A. The HR reported a 14.5-15 million budget. Because of his dedication to his work, Jerry's personal life has disintegrated, and he's in the throes of a divorce. Don Johnson stars as homicide detective Jerry Beck, a very different law-enforcement type than his career-making role in television's MIAMI VICE.