Death Warrant DVD 1990 / Directed by Deran Sarafian / Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb

REGION 2 NTSC DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 5.1

SUBTITLES: English, Japanese

Total Runtime: 89 minutes 

• ASIN: B0001N1LNQ
• JAN： 4988142190420 / EAN: 4988142190420

English Summary:

Death Warrant is a 1990 American action crime mystery-thriller film directed by Deran Sarafian and produced by Mark di Salle. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially. In the film, the police detective Louis Burke is going into a prison facility at California as an undercover cop in order to find out who stands behind a mysterious series of murders, and finds himself locked up with his nemesis: Christian Naylor, a psychotic serial killer who calls himself "The Sandman" who sets out to exact revenge upon him after getting into prison.

Detective Louis Burke (Jean-Claude van Damme) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Quebec confronts the maniac that killed his partner on the force: an enigmatic psychopathic serial killer by the name of Christian Naylor (Patrick Kilpatrick), who calls himself "The Sandman". Burke searches an abandoned house in Los Angeles, where he comes across a series of bodies hanging from the ceiling, and is then attacked by the Sandman. Burke is able to shoot the Sandman several times in the center of his chest, apparently killing him.

Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force assembled by the governor to investigate a series of murders in the Harrison State Prison in California which is becoming a scandal threatening his reelection. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett (Cynthia Gibb) acts as his wife.

Burke goes undercover and is interned in the State penitentiary, where befriends his cellmate Konefke (Conrad Dunn) and a clerk, Hawkins (Robert Guillaume). Despite Burke saving Hawkins from a confrontation with a Mexican gang, neither he nor Konefke will talk about the recent murders. Burke is able to track down the cellmate of the most recent victim (named Barrett), who works at the infirmary, but the cellmate also refuses to talk. When Burke threatens him, he reveals that he doesn't know what's going on, but that the guards are involved and that there is an "outside man." He sends Burke to talk to Priest (Abdul Salaam El Razzac), who gets him a key to the records room.

Casting:

• Jean-Claude van Damme as Louis Burke
• Robert Guillaume as Hawkins
• Cynthia Gibb as Amanda Beckett
• George Dickerson as Tom Vogler
• Art LaFleur as Sergeant De Graff
• Patrick Kilpatrick as Christian "The Sandman" Naylor
• Abdul Salaam El Razzac as Priest
• Armin Shimerman as Dr. Gottesman
• Joshua John Miller as Douglas Tisdale
• Larry Hankin as Mayerson
• Hank Stone as Romaker
• Conrad Dunn as Konefke
• Joe Dassa as Cop with inmate