Film · 1981 · 108 min · Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Murder has a sound all of its own.
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
Directed by Brian De Palma
Starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, John Aquino, John McMartin, Deborah Everton
TMDB lists no release dates for New Zealand yet. The first cinema release anywhere was on 24 July 1981 in the United States.
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