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Nighthawks, Movie, 1981 IMDB

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Also known as:

  • Halcones de la noche (Argentina)
  • Nachtfalken (Austria)
  • Os Falcões da Noite (Brazil)
  • Les faucons de la nuit (Canada)
  • I falchi della notte (Italy)
  • El chacal (Venezuela)


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badlymad CA

2011-06-04 00:58

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Filmed in the UK, France and the U.S., Nighthawks stars Slyvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams as two NYPD detectives pursuing a German terrorist (played by Rutger Hauer in his American film debut

For impdb.org: A Bell 206 is used by Stallone when responding to the hijacking of a skytram:

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Ddey65 US

2011-06-04 18:37

This is the "Skytram" badlymad is referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island_Tramway

http://www.rioc.com/

http://www.rioc.com/pdf/Tram_backgrounder11.24.10.pdf

http://www.rioc.com/pdf/RI_Background_11.24.10.pdf

Corkeyandpals US

2014-10-16 18:09

Aircraft at: http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Nighthawks

mike962 DE

2025-01-20 17:41

:hello: humungus

overlooked Sly Stallone flick

humungus SI

2025-01-20 19:04

You mean an overlooked Rutger Hauer flick. :D

I have a memory of seeing this way back when, but remember nothing whatever of it. Time to see it again.

mike962 DE

2025-01-20 19:31

^ so you already know missing construction vehicles after Sly first chases Rutger out of a night club


- P&H Omega rough terrain crane , you will easy recognize it

- another Bucyrus-Erie Dynahoe backhoe

- wheel loader which is Caterpillar 980C

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humungus SI

2025-01-20 20:06

As I said, I don't remember anything (though the skytram rings a faint bell), but thanks for the tip. I'll be on the lookout for those three.

humungus SI

2025-01-23 00:42

“You go to a better life.”

Good popcorn movie zipping along fast. Stallone's antics on and off the set make him seem like a very sad, pathetic little man, but apparently years later he owned up to his impossible behavior and praised Rutger Hauer (who's indeed terrific as always), so I suppose one has to give him credit for that.

Upgraded to HD and added some vehicles.

bonus Mini:
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bonus VW relic:
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bonus miniature:
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blurmobiles:
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mike962 DE

2025-01-23 00:45

^ the original longer cut is not shown either

small things like notice Rutger gets shot 2 times by Sly but is seen with 6 bullet holes in chest at end , hence they cut out the shooting (revolver has 6 shots so a full clip fired)

"Bionic Woman" Lindsay Wagner said she had a much larger role but was cut down a lot

-- Last edit: 2025-01-23 00:48:04

mike962 DE

2025-01-23 00:54

another trivia Rutger uses the Ingram MAC-10 machine pistol , one of those Hollywood darlings for bad guys in 70s to 90s :whistle:

this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoF2sRIk2Ck

in reality is one of the worst machine pistols ever made, open bolt extremely high fire rate of nearly 1500 round , you run very quickly out of ammo and accuracy is non existing really that's why this weapon was never adopted by professional military/ police forces

-- Last edit: 2025-01-23 00:55:42

dsl SX

2025-01-23 00:59

humungus wrote bonus Mini:
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70+ Mini 1000 Mk3 for Leyland wing logo - deleted about 74.

humungus SI

2025-01-23 01:01

mike962 wrote ^ the original longer cut is not shown either

small things like notice Rutger gets shot 2 times by Sly but is seen with 6 bullet holes in chest at end , hence they cut out the shooting (revolver has 6 shots so a full clip fired)

"Bionic Woman" Lindsay Wagner said she had a much larger role but was cut down a lot

Based on what's published out there, one can surmise there are/were four (five, if you count the version without Brown Sugar on the soundtrack) cuts of the movie:
- one preview cut with more Hauer (and his confederate) which was favored by test audiences;
- one preview cut with more Stallone (and Wagner as his ex-wife);
- Stallone's re-edit of the Hauer cut to have more of him and less of Hauer;
- the final cut which was apparently the studio's re-edit of Stallone's re-edit to remove most of violence to avoid the X rating and Stallone/Wagner scenes so as to keep up the pace.

Given how happy studios are to double, triple and quadruple dip, I'm genuinely surprised none of the alternate cuts were ever offered as some sort of a special edition or something. Perhaps they threw away the footage.

mike962 DE

2025-01-23 01:04

^ and it happened again with another Sly movie later

Cobra (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CCg4dYe0A

clearly some cuts but the longer cuts never released :o

-- Last edit: 2025-01-23 01:04:50

CougarTim US

2025-01-23 01:40

"bonus miniature:"
1979-1980 Mazda 626 - rare in US-spec, practically extinct by now

Ddey65 US

2025-01-23 01:49

humungus wrote
blurmobiles:
[Image: bonus002915.jpg] [Image: bonus002917.jpg] [Image: bonus002921.jpg] [Image: bonus013134.1.jpg]

1)Full-size Buick of the mid-1970's. 2)Either 1971-73 Dodge B-Series Sportsman or 1974-76 Plymouth Voyager. 3)Volvo sedan of some kind. 4)1973-77 GM A-body station wagon.

-- Last edit: 2025-01-23 02:40:27

CougarTim US

2025-01-24 00:24

1. 1974 Buick Electra (and a yellow 1979-1980 Mercury Bobcat in the background)
4. 1974-1977 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu Classic Estate by the details

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