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No Way Out (1987)

R 08/14/1987 (US) Thriller 1h 54m

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Is it a crime of passion, or an act of treason?

Overview

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.

Roger Donaldson

Director
Kenneth Fearing

Novel
Robert Garland

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Kevin Costner

Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
Gene Hackman

Defense Secretary David Brice
Sean Young

Susan Atwell
Will Patton

Scott Pritchard
Howard Duff

Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
George Dzundza

Sam Hesselman
Jason Bernard

Major Donovan
Iman

Nina Beka
Fred Thompson

CIA Director Marshall
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on September 25, 2014

Counting down the hours for some self investigation.

No Way Out is directed by Roger Donaldson and adapted to screenplay by Robert Garland from the novel "The Big Clock" written by Kenneth Fearing. It stars Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, George Dzundza and Howard Duff. Music is by Maurice Jarre and cinematography by John Alcott.

Already filmed impressively as The Big Clock in 1948, Fearing's ingenious source material gets a shift to a Pentagon backdrop and still comes out a winner. Putting their own spin on the central story, that of a man finding he is investigatin... read the rest.

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