Disorganized Crime
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| Directed by | Jim Kouf |
| Produced by | Lynn Bigelow |
| Written by | Jim Kouf |
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| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Ronald Víctor García |
| Edited by |
Frank Morriss Dallas Puet |
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| Distributed by | DreamWorks Pictures |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office |
Domestic: $7,724,000 |
Disorganized Crime is a 1989 American heist comedy film was written and directed by Jim Kouf and released through Touchstone Pictures. The ensemble cast includes Fred Gwynne, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rubén Blades, William Russ, Corbin Bernsen, Ed O'Neill, Daniel Roebuck and Hoyt Axton.
The story begins in a small town in western Montana where New Jersey based bank robber Frank Salazar has been hiding out from the law after a series of bank robberies in Newark. Upon realizing that the local bank contains a large amount of cash, Salazar recruits four former accomplices to come to town and help him rob the bank. Among them are Nick Bartkowski, a nervous and possibly alcoholic safecracker; Max Green, an old school explosives expert with a heart condition; Ray Forgy, a young, wisecracking auto thief and getaway driver; and Carlos Barrios, a well-manicured lookout and weapons expert.
Before they can arrive, however, two New Jersey detectives (George Denver and Bill Lonigan) catch up with Salazar, arrest him, and extradite him back to New Jersey. But Salazar soon escapes and becomes hopelessly lost in the Montana wilderness as he flees Denver and Lonigan's custody.
Unaware of Salazar's arrest and escape, the four accomplices arrive and realize that he is nowhere to be found. They finally decide to take down the bank on their own but must go through several humorous ordeals before they can complete their plan.
Principal photography begin in late April, early May 1988 in Missoula, Montana. During the first week of filming in Missoula, a group of Teamsters Union began picketing the set, & protest the production company's use of non-union drivers. Bitterroot Productions had hired 14 non-union drivers, most of them local residents, to move people & equipment between the sets. They first offered the jobs to Teamsters officials, but the union rejected the offer. After filming was done in Missoula, the cast & crew traveled to nearby Hamilton, Montana where most of the film is set. They spend nearly a month & a half filming in Hamilton because of the bank scenes, the court house scene at the Ravalli Country Court House & more locations in town. Finally they went out to Darby, Montana where they filmed the small house scenes where the 4 bank robbers hide out for their partner Salazar, the gas station scene & the river sequence where the two cops try to track down Salazar. Filming was completed shortly in late June 1988. Hoyt Axton, who plays the Sherriff, loved the Bitterroot Valley so much, he purchased a ranch in the valley shortly after filming was completed. He lived there for most of the time until his death.
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