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Night Children [VHS]

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David Carradine plays a cop on the world's toughest beat, a street in Los Angeles where life is cheaper than a morning paper. The kids who call this street home are as tough as its pavement; living in darkness, slipping through the shadows, they are Night Children. Their leader, Blade, played by Griffin O'Neal, cannot help but destroy what he loves.

Nancy Kwan plays a probation officer trying to save Blade's girlfriend Jenny, and her friend Susie, from the whirlpool of drugs and violence on the street. In the end, it is only her gun that saves anyone. A taut, well-plotted film, Night Children careens with all the energy and naked violence of today's headlines.

Dave Carradine and his Dave Leisure(Joe
Isuzu) look alike partner investigate
crimes of dastardly Griffin O'Neal's
street gang of punks. Nancy Quan plays
his long suffering liberal social worker
(??) girlfriend (??) wife, we're never
sure. Writer-Director-Co-Producer/Nobody
Norbert Meisel's hamfisted direction
and the cheap (and dark!) production
standards hurt what could be a decent
B Indy film. Since Carradine did six
other projects this year, he can be
forgiven for not being his sharpest
here. Losses an eye in Deer Hunter
ripoff scene and punk before he pulls
the triger EVEN SAYS IT'S A RIPOFF of
the Deerhunter! Patrick Culliton, with
a mustache appears at the beginning
(He played opposite Dave in Future
Force and Future Zone ) gets bumped off
so early in film I had to watch it twice
to realize he was in here, as it said so
in closing credits. Meisel never worked
in Hollyweird again and one or two looks
of this film and you will know why!