Estate Of Roderick Thorp, Author Of ‘Die Hard’s Literary Inspiration, Developing Slate Of Adaptations For Film & TV Including Thriller ‘Hot Pursuit’
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**Written and directed by Kenneth Johnson.** Nasty automobile designer Bradford Dillman is murdered. All evidence points to his top engineer Kerrie Keane. Knowing it was an elaborate frame, her husband Eric Pierpoint breaks her out of jail and they go on the run. In the second hour, they wind up working in a bar in New Orleans while searching for a woman (also Kerrie Keane) who was hired to help with the frame. They become embroiled in the problems of a young pregnant woman whose dancer boyfriend (Billy Hufsey) is a lowlife. They jeopardise their own freedom to help her escape the clutches of a black market baby ring. None of it feels real. The first half-hour is devoted to the protagonists and their perfect marriage. They are so in love and so demonstrative, that I grew to dislike them a little bit. They feel like the boring couple in a soap opera. And the elaborate frame up feels like it belongs in a soap, not an action drama. And there is action. A couple of decent fist fights with recurring villain Mike Preston, and an impressive car-ambulance chase around the streets of New Orleans. But the premise–which worked perfectly in The Fugitive, The Incredible Hulk, Two, etc.–feels contrived and silly here. Maybe because these protagonists have each other, so it never feels like they have lost anything–whereas the heroes of the other shows are tragic figures who have lost everything. _Fall 1984: NBC aired Hot Pursuit in the final hour of Saturday prime time after Partners in Crime (aka Fifty/Fifty overseas). Against it, ABC had Finder of the Lost Loves, while CBS aired Cover Up._ 5/10
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Love all the Hot Pursuit games dating back to 1998 and I still play the 2010/remastered version by Criterion 😍
One of the best arcade racing games with a kickass soundtrack to race alongside others and drift round the hairpins around Seacrest County while evading the angry cops 🏎️ 💨 🚓
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But rewind to 1994, and the first Need for Speed was a fairly typical point-to-point arcade racer. You had some real licensed cars – including the Lamborghini Diablo and Honda NSX – a selection of routes and the option to race with (or without) opponents. By the time Underground was released in 2003, the racing …
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