An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye
Promotional film poster
Directed by	Steve Carver
Produced by	Frank Capra, Jr. Robert Rehme
Written by	James Bruner William Gray
Starring	Chuck Norris Christopher Lee Richard Roundtree Matt Clark Mako Iwamatsu Maggie Cooper
Music by	William Goldstein
Cinematography	Roger Shearman
Editing by	Anthony Redman
Studio	Adams Apple Production Company South Street Films Westcom Barber International
Distributed by	Embassy Pictures New World-Mutual
Release date(s)	August 14, 1981 (1981-08-14) November 19, 1981 (1981-11-19) January 14, 1982 (1982-01-14) February 1, 1982 (1982-02-01)
Running time	106 minutes approx.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$7,496,681 (US)[1]

An Eye for an Eye is a 1981 American martial arts action crime film directed by Steve Carver, starring Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Mako Iwamatsu, and Maggie Cooper.

Summary

Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of mafiosi into unexpected high places.

Plot

Undercover San Francisco narcotics cops Sean Kane (Chuck Norris) and Dave Pierce (Terry Kiser) head into a dark alley to meet up with an informant by the name of Tony Montoya (Mel Novak) who promises to break their big investigation wide open by providing the name of the oriental drug ringleader. Minutes later, Pierce is dead after having been shot, hit by a car, and burned. Kane gets into trouble with his boss, Captain Stevens (Richard Roundtree), for sending one of the killers flying out a third story window to his death in full public view right after the incident. Rather than face discipline, and told to keep his distance by his superiors, Kane now decides to quit the force, and sets out to exact vengeance.

Kane is not the only one who is angry; Dave’s girlfriend, reporter Linda Chan (Rosalind Chao), is too, and she vows to bring the drug gang down herself by way of investigative reporting and public exposure. However, when Linda uncovers the secret that Kane and Pierce never found, she, too, is killed. Now Kane is not just angry; he is furious, and so is Linda's grieving father James Chan (Mako Iwamatsu). Kane vows to get to the bottom of things himself and bring down the drug gang, which is led by Morgan Canfield (Christopher Lee).

Cast and characters

References

External links

• An Eye for an Eye at the Internet Movie Database
• An Eye for an Eye at AllRovi

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