Movie
Sharky's Machine
1981R2h 2m6.2 / 10
Nobody leans on Sharky's Machine.
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
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Synopsis
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
More about Sharky's Machine
Cast
Burt ReynoldsTom Sharky
Rachel WardDomino
Henry SilvaBilly Score
Brian KeithPapa
Vittorio GassmanVictor Scorelli
Charles DurningLt. Friscoe
Earl HollimanDonald Hotchkins
Bernie CaseyArchCredits
- Directed by
- Burt Reynolds
- Written by
- Gerald Di Pego, William Diehl
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $17.5M
- Box office
- $35.6M
Production
- Deliverance Productions
Orion PicturesUnited States
Themes
fingergangsterjazzmartial artsmurderpoliceprostitutionrevenge
