An Eye for an Eye (1981 film)
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| Directed by | Steve Carver |
| Produced by |
Frank Capra, Jr. Robert Rehme |
| Written by | James Bruner William Gray |
| Starring |
Chuck Norris Christopher Lee Richard Roundtree Matt Clark Mako Iwamatsu Maggie Cooper |
| Music by | William Goldstein |
| Cinematography | Roger Shearman |
| Edited by | Anthony Redman |
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Adams Apple Production Company
South Street Films Westcom Barber International |
| Distributed by |
Embassy Pictures (U.S.) New World-Mutual (Canada) |
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Running time
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106 minutes approx. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $7,496,681 (US) |
An Eye for an Eye is a 1981 American action film directed by Steve Carver, and starring Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Mako Iwamatsu, and Maggie Cooper.
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of mafiosi into unexpected high places.
Undercover San Francisco narcotics cops Sean Kane (Chuck Norris) and Dave Pierce (Terry Kiser) head into a dark alley to meet up with an informant by the name of Tony Montoya (Mel Novak) who promises to break their big investigation wide open by providing the name of the oriental drug ringleader. Minutes later, Pierce is dead after having been shot, hit by a car, and burned. Kane gets into trouble with his boss, Captain Stevens (Richard Roundtree), for sending one of the killers flying out a third story window to his death in full public view right after the incident. Rather than face discipline, and told to keep his distance by his superiors, Kane now decides to quit the force, and sets out to exact vengeance.
Kane is not the only one who is angry; Dave’s girlfriend, reporter Linda Chan (Rosalind Chao), is too, and she vows to bring the drug gang down herself by way of investigative reporting and public exposure. However, when Linda uncovers the secret that Kane and Pierce never found, she, too, is killed. Kane sets out for revenge, and so does Linda's grieving father James Chan (Mako Iwamatsu). Together they get to the bottom of things and bring down the drug gang, and its unexpected leader.
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