Sharky's
Machine
Non-Series
William
Diehl
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0385288697
Published: June 1978
Synopsis: Italy, 1944: A squad of
American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and
slaughtered . . . and a fortune in gold vanishes.
Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime
past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious brothel.
Atlanta, 1975: The last survivor of the fatal World War II ambush in
Italy is executed at point blank range in a parking lot.
Blowing away a crazed, gun-wielding drug dealer on a crowded city bus
gets police detective Sharky bounced from the narc squad into the
dreaded dregs of the department-vice. That's where he stumbles on a
high-priced call girl and her pimp who are fleecing rich johns in an
even higher-priced blackmail scam. Together with his "machine" of
hard-bitten vice squad veterans, Sharky closes in for a big sting. He
doesn't count on falling for Domino, his alluring target. Or falling
into the middle of the murderous design she's a part of-involving a hot
presidential candidate, the shadowy multimillionaire who's backing him,
and the ice-cold assassin they're using to wipe out the past ... before
it blows their future to hell.
Sharky's
Machine
Burt Reynolds, Director
Burt Reynolds: Sgt. Tom Sharky
Vittorio Gassman: Victor
Brian Keith: Papa
Charles Durning: Friscoe
Earl Holliman: Hotchkins
Bernie Casey: Arch
Henry Silva: Billy Score
Richard Libertini: Nosh
Darryl Hickman: Smiley
Rachel Ward: Dominoe
UPC: 085392202423
Source: Warner Home Video
DVD Release: 10/20/1998
Original Release: 12/18/1981
Rating: R
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
Presentation: Pan & Scan
Sound: Dolby Surround
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Time: 2:02:00
