Slow Burn | |
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Directed by | John Eyres |
Written by | Stephen Lister[1] |
Produced by | Stephen Chang John A. Curtis John Eyres Zafar Malik (exec prod) Lloyd Simandl (exec prod) |
Starring | William Smith Anthony James Scott Anderson Ivan Rogers Thom Schioler Melissa J. Conroy Stephen M.D. Chang[2] |
Cinematography | Nathaniel Massey |
Edited by | Derek Whelan[3] |
Music by | Alan Grey |
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Language | English |
Slow Burn is a 1989 film directed by John Eyres and starring Ivan Rogers, William Smith, Anthony James and Stephen M.D. Chang. A veteran cop's partner is killed by a Mafia hitman, and he goes after him. Also on the trail of the hitman is a rookie cop who has his own personal reasons for pursuing him.
A veteran cop has the task of preventing two rival criminal organizations from warring with each other. The two organizations happen to be the Mafia and the Triads.[4][5] Besides this, the cop is also pursuing a hitman who is also being pursued by a less experienced cop. The veteran cop has no idea that rookie cop who has put himself in a close position to the hit man's boss is after the same target.[6][7] The Mafia don was played by William Smith and the hitman Emilio Renzetti played by Anthony James.[8]
Slow Burn was released in Belgium in 1990 on Excalibur Video.[12] One piece of movie-related material bears the line, "In Chinatown, The Only Thing That Runs Deeper Than Tradition Is Blood".[13]