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distributor did not want a Black lead in the film, and sought Robert Davi instead. Lustig pleaded against it, but eventually Davi was cast. They had a script that did not make sense, according to Lustig in a 2019 interview. Larry Cohen refused to rewrite the script, unless he was paid for the additional work. The producers declined to pay him. As a result, Lustig had to improvise and cut scenes from the script. In Lustig's words: "We got to a point where we shot all the scenes we could shoot, after cutting all the other stuff out of the script, and it came out to be like an hour long movie. So they had to go out and shoot scenes that were just filler". At that point, Lustig walked away from the film. The film is credited to
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disabled vehicle, the canister goes off, blowing up the car. Later, the charred corpse of Katie is rolled into a morgue, next to the burned remains of
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suspect but realizes that the clerk is his girlfriend, and she had intentionally let him in to rob the store. There is a crossfire, and while Katie is severely wounded, she ends up killing the clerk in return.
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was released in the United States on videocassette on July 7, 1993 after a
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422:as Degrazia
396:Frank Pesce
378:Doug Savant
339:Robert Davi
268:Larry Cohen
266:written by
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90:Robert Davi
64:Produced by
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39:Directed by
1179:1992 films
1173:Categories
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999:Maniac Cop
987:Maniac Cop
807:(Blu-ray)"
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398:as Tribble
374:as William
276:Maniac Cop
235:85 minutes
218:1992-12-10
163:Production
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138:Rick Tuber
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1100:Vigilante
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240:Country
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1135:(1990)
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