Killer Elite, The (Full Frame)

VHS, PG, 122 minutes, MGM

Sam Peckinpah, the master of film violence, explores that grey world between good and evil, where good men turn bad, and bad men stay that way. A cold, cynical, weary world where loyalty means little, and morality means nothing. A world where some kill for money, some kill for vengeance, and some kill just for the joy it. This is the world of the "Killer Elite". James Caan (Misery) plays a man who learns that his trade - assassination, gunplay, martial arts - is ultimatley a one-way street to extermination. Academy Award winner Robert Duvall is his partner and friend who savagely betrays him. Rebuilding his shattered body, Caan is determined to squared accounts once and or all-and Duval knows it. In true Peckinpah style, the many spectacular action sequences are conceived as graceful, slow-motion ballets of violence. No one in film history has done it better. Filmed against cold, hard edged locations around San Francisco Bay, "The Killer Elite" where nothing is what is seems-and everything is dangerous.