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Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping the relationship at all. Written by
John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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He didn't want to share the murder investigation. There's no way he's going to share his daughter.
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Star
Sean Connery and director
Peter Hyams previously collaborated on
Outland (1981) around seven years earlier. This picture was their second and final film of two collaborations.
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Meg Ryan's character goes out on a date wearing a very short black mini-dress. At the end of the date as she leaves to go home, her dress reaches almost to her knees.
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Sgt. Major Ross Maclure:
I've known buildings that were easier to talk to than you.
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Outland (1981)
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That Old Black Magic
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A Military Policeman investigating what looked like a break-in at the Officer's Club at the Presidio in San Francisco is shot down. The same man also shoots an SFPD officer while fleeing the first crime. This makes the whole thing a dual jurisdiction between the Army and the local law enforcement.
Hard enough normally, but in this situation you have a detective played by Mark Harmon who's a former MP who has a bad history with Sean Connery the provost marshal in charge at the Presidio. Though they hate each other's guts they of necessity have to work together.
Sean Connery is one of those players who just being in a film elevates in class. Without him in the thing this would be just a routine police yarn, might have been good enough for a made for TV film and nothing more. Another conflict in the film is Connery with daughter Meg Ryan who takes an interest in Harmon at first to spite dad, but then finds herself falling for him.
Acting honors in this film go to Jack Warden the retired sergeant major who won a Congressional Medal of Honor saving Connery's life in Vietnam. Warden and Connery keep you interested in the film, in finding out just why the MP and the SFPD officer had to die. Without them, I doubt anyone would care.