Stone Cold (1991 film)
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Film poster for Stone Cold
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| Directed by | Craig R. Baxley |
| Produced by |
Yoram Ben-Ami Walter Doniger Nick Grillo Udi Nedivi Andrew Pfeffer Gray Wichard Rick Bieber Moshe Diamant Michael Douglas Mace Neufeld |
| Written by | Walter Doniger |
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| Music by | Sylvester Levay |
| Cinematography | Alexander Gruszynski |
| Edited by | Mark Helfrich |
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Stone Group Pictures
Vision International |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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May 17, 1991 |
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Running time
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95 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $9,151,887 |
Stone Cold is a 1991 action movie about a biker gang that tries to assassinate the district attorney and free one of their members who is on trial for murder. The movie marked the acting debut of 1980s football star Brian Bosworth.
Brian Bosworth stars as Joe Huff, a tough Alabama cop who is frustrated with a system that handles criminals with kid gloves. Currently, Joe is on suspension for displaying excessive violence toward criminals.
After stopping a supermarket robbery, Joe is summoned by Agent Cunningham (Richard Gant), whom he meets in a vacant underground parking garage. Cunningham proceeds to blackmail Joe into going undercover, by threatening to turn his three-week suspension into six months without pay.
Cunningham wants Joe to go undercover in Mississippi and infiltrate "The Brotherhood," a white supremacist biker gang linked to the murders of government officials and suspected of dealing drugs to the mafia. The Brotherhood is led by a violent psychopath named Chains Cooper (Lance Henriksen).
Joe reluctantly accepts and goes undercover as "John Stone", but his job is not easy. His FBI contact, Lance (Sam McMurray) is a germophobe who does not exactly fit in with the biker crowd, and the members of the Brotherhood, especially Chains, have their doubts about "John Stone", who has seemingly come out of nowhere to get a piece of their action.
Charged with killing a man as his initiation, Huff enlists the FBI's help to carefully fake the murder and is accepted into the Brotherhood. However, Chains's right-hand man Ice Hensley (William Forsythe), does not trust him and eventually goes out of his way to expose him, with disastrous results leading to Ice being killed.
During the operation, Huff learns that the Brotherhood's ultimate goal is to eliminate Brent "The Whip" Whipperton, a District Attorney running for Governor of Mississippi, who has promised to crack down on crime within the state. They plan to use a cache of stolen military weapons to storm the Supreme Court, where one of their own is on trial for murder, and assassinate both Whipperton and the judge presiding over the case.
When Chains' girlfriend Nancy accidentally learns about Huff's identity, he confides in her, explaining that he can grant her immunity if she cooperates with the FBI. Though resistant at first, Nancy accepts his offer, but the operation fails when the man Huff had supposedly killed to gain admission to the Brotherhood suddenly returns. In retaliation, Chains shoots and kills Nancy, but plans to do away with Huff in a more spectacular fashion, by strapping a bomb to his chest and throwing him from a helicopter en route to the courthouse.
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