- Film Review
- Reviewed By Adrian Turner
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3 out of 5
In Alan Parker's tense, unpleasant thriller set in 1950s New Orleans, Mickey Rourke plays the New York private detective who's trying to locate a missing person for sinister client Robert De Niro. The trail leads towards voodoo rites and other "gumbo"-jumbo. Rourke's naked romp with Lisa Bonet, as blood drips from the ceiling, caused considerable controversy and received attention from the censors, though you might think the things that really need a good snip are De Niro's fingernails. The story is utter nonsense, dressed up by Parker with much visual hype, and with Rourke, De Niro and Charlotte Rampling contributing performances just the right side of self-parody.
Plot Summary
Mystery thriller starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. New York, 1955: private eye Harry Angel is hired by enigmatic businessman Louis Cyphre to trace a big-band singer believed to be in a veterans' hospital suffering from amnesia. But after discovering that the singer has apparently disappeared, Angel becomes drawn into a macabre world of voodoo and satanic rites.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Harry Angel
- Mickey Rourke
- Louis Cyphre
- Robert De Niro
- Epiphany Proudfoot
- Lisa Bonet
- Margaret Krusemark
- Charlotte Rampling
- Ethan Krusemark
- Stocker Fontelieu
- Toots Sweet
- Brownie McGhee
- Doctor Fowler
- Michael Higgins
- Connie
- Elizabeth Whitcraft
- Sterne
- Eliott Keener
- Spider Simpson
- Charles Gordone
- Winesap
- Dann Florek
- Nurse
- Kathleen Wilhoite
Crew
- Director
- Alan Parker
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