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The First Power

Year:

1990

Duration:

98 min

Genres:

Crime | Horror | Thriller

IMDB rate:

5.6

Director:

Robert Resnikoff

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1990-04-06

Filming Locations: 912 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $10,000,000

Gross: $22,424,195 (USA) Filming Dates 17 April 1989 - 28 June 1989 Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Clayton Landey

Melanie Shatner

Lou Diamond Phillips

Russell Logan

Tracy Griffith

Tess Seaton

Jeff Kober

Patrick Channing

Mykelti Williamson

Detective Oliver Franklin (as Mykel T. Williamson)

Elizabeth Arlen

Sister Marguerite

Dennis Lipscomb

Commander Perkins

Carmen Argenziano

Lieutenant Grimes

Julianna McCarthy

Grandmother

Nada Despotovich

Bag Lady

Sue Giosa

Carmen

Hansford Rowe

Father Brian

Philip Abbott

Cardinal

David Gale

Monsignor

J. Patrick McNamara

Priest

Lisa Specht

Anchorwoman

Mark Bringelson

Driver in Alley

William Fair

Detective #2

Brian Libby

Bum / Detective

Michael McNab

Uniform

David J. Partington

Detective (as David Partington)

Dan Tullis Jr.

Cop at Arrest

Michael Wise

Cop at Tenement

Andrew Amador

Reporter #1

Paula McClure

Reporter #2

Tiiu Leek

Reporter #3

Mitch Carter

Uniform Cop #1

Jeff Mooring

Uniform Cop #2

Todd Jeffries

Cop

Grand L. Bush

Reservoir Worker

Gokul

Street Vendor

David Katims

Man in Parking Structure

Lynne Marta

Nun (as Lynn Marta)

Charles Raymond

Gang Member #1

Scott Lawrence

Gang Member #2

Bill Moseley

Bartender

R. David Stephens

Desk Clerk

Oz Tortora

Antonio

Robert Colaizzi

Driver

Ron J. Goodman

Bum in Hotel

Did you know?

Trivia

Fangoria Magazine ran a large story on the film when it was to be called "Transit".

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Artist Nick Cave was considered for the bad guy/Patrick Nanning role. Cave, who was touring the US at the time, did audition for the role, but later said he was glad he had not been awarded the part.

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Brian Libby, portraying the Bum Detective states "Only a psycho *bleep* killer is smart enough to stay out of the rain." The actor himself portrayed a psychotic killer in the 1982 thriller Silent Rage.

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Goofs

Many times throughout the movie, Logan gets his weapon knocked out of reach, but then is then holding it moments later when there was no time to retrieve it.

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The ugly Oldsmobile on the LA freeway is missing its right front hub cap, but is has been replaced by the time the car pulls into the parking lot.

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Set in Los Angeles, yet Chicago's Sears Tower is visible in the background.

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Quotes

Tess Seaton: Patrick you can't keep on killing forever!

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Patrick Channing: See you around, buddy-boy.

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