Main Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving
Release Year: 1986
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
Plot
A John Carpenter story served as the launching pad for Black Moon Rising. Veteran thief Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired by the FBI to steal some politically volatile computer tapes. The owners of the tapes are displeased, and begin chasing Quint all over the countryside. Just when he's about to surrender his booty, Quint's car -- wherein the tapes are stored -- is stolen by Nina (Linda Hamilton). She delivers the car to her corporate-villain boyfriend Ryland (Robert Vaughn), who runs a hot auto ring. Nina then has second thoughts and decides to throw in with Quint...and round and round we go. The "Black Moon" of the title is the name Quint's high-tech, low-slung vehicle. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Bubba Smith - Johnson; Dan Shor - Billy Lyons; William Sanderson - Tyke Thayden; Keenan Wynn - Iron John; Richard Angarola - Dr. Melato; Nick Cassavetes - Luis; Carl Ciarfalio - Ringers Man #1; Townsend Coleman - Waiter; Stanley de Santis - The Mover; Frank Dent - Technician #1; Lisa London - Redhead; Doug MacHugh - Casino Security #1; William Marquez - Reynoso; David Pressman - Kid at Grocery Store; Don Pulford - Ringers Man #2; Don Opper - Frenchie; Dalton Cathey - Maitre d'; Rudy Daniels - Officer; Bill Moody - Windbreaker Man; Al White - Maintenance Man; Dave Adams - Foreman
Credit
Linda Francis - Casting, Jack Buehler - Costume Designer, Harley Cokliss - Director, Todd Ramsay - Editor, Lalo Schifrin - Composer (Music Score), Annie Maniscalco - Makeup, Sarina Rotstein - Production Designer, Bryan Ryman - Production Designer, Mikhail Suslov - Cinematographer, George W. Perkins - Production Manager, Douglas Curtis - Producer, Joel B. Michaels - Producer, Max W. Anderson - Special Effects, Polly Burson - Stunts, Randy Hall - Stunts, Michael Haynes - Stunts, Dennis Scott - Stunts, Monty Cox - Stunts, Bud Davis - Stunts, Greg Gault - Stunts, Carey Loftin - Stunts, Phil Adams - Stunts, Glory Fioramonti - Stunts, Chuck Hart - Stunts, J.N. Roberts - Stunts, Debbie Evans - Stunts, Gary Charles Davis - Stunts, Pete Antico - Stunts, John Carpenter - Screenwriter, Steve De Jarnatt - Screenwriter, Richard Dilello - Screenwriter, William Gray - Screenwriter, Desmond Nakano - Screenwriter
Black Moon Rising, (1986) is an action film directed by Harley Cokeliss, written by John Carpenter and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton and Robert Vaughn. The focus of the film was the theft of a prototype vehicle called the 'Black Moon'.
Working for the US Government to retrieve a cassette with vital information, Sam Quint, a former CIA agent (Jones), runs into Marvin Ringer (Lee Ving), another hitman he replaced, who is after the same cassette. In a desperate attempt to evade Ringer and get the tape back to a government official (played by Bubba Smith), Quint hides the cassette in a 300-MPH prototype vehicle, the Black Moon, which is on a transporter destined for a public presentation in Los Angeles. Before Quint can recover the cassette, Nina (Hamilton) steals the Black Moon, with Quint on her tail, and returns it to a warehouse, the headquarters for the car thief ring headed by Ed Ryland (Vaughn). Quint must lure Nina into helping him recover the Black Moon, with the help of its driver and his crew, and make it out alive with the cassette and the car before the next day.
The Car
The Black Moon was based on the 1980 Wingho Concordia II designed by Bernard Beaujardins and Clyde Kwok, made by Wingho Auto Classique in Montreal.[1][2]. Only one of these had been built, so in the movie, a copy of the car cast from a mould was used for stunts, as well as a third replica of the interior only.
