Other Titles • Nighthawks • Hawks (1981) • Nachtfalken (1981)
Synopses for Nighthawks (1981)
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A slick, sometimes over the top action adventure set in New York City during the end of the disco era, Nighthawks stars Sylvester Stallone as a hotshot New York cop with a troubled personal life drawn into an international terrorist vendetta. Stallone and partner Billy Dee Williams are recruited into a covert operation to stop an infamous terrorist named Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer), whom they believe to be in New York. Soon a cat-and-mouse game ensues between the blue-collar cop and the refined terrorist through the streets, discotheques, and subways of the city. And then things get personal as Wulfgar targets Stallone's wife (Lindsay Wagner). A fairly routine but well-photographed action thriller with the usual fast-paced adrenaline rush sequences for which Stallone has become famous. --Robert Lane
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Two N.Y. cops whose regular beat is street crime, get involved in a fight against international terrorists. Tense suspense in a tram car high above Manhattan. An ITA Award winner.
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A Terrorist Holds New Yrok in a Grip of Fear - and Only Stallone Can Take Him On.
New York cops Sylvester Stallone (an Oscar nominee for Rocky) and Billy Dee Williams (The Empire Strikes Back) pursue a ruthless terrorist in this thriller, which co-stars Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman). A memorable villain in the cult classic Blade Runner, Dutch actor Rutger Hauer makes his American debut as Wulfgar, who’s left a trail of bodies in Europe with an Interpol agent (Nigel Davenport) dogging his tracks. Recently transferred to an anti-terrorist unit, Deke DaSilva (Stallone) and Matthew Fox (Williams) must find and stop Wulfgar before he can strike again, but lose him after a chase through a crowded subway train. When Wulfgar and his accomplice, Shakka (Persis Khambatta), hijack a group of U.N. diplomats aboard a Roosevelt Island tram, the stage is set for a final confrontation with Deke - and only one of them will survive.
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