Badge of the Assassin
Jan 04 1985
•2h 36m
•Drama, Action, TV Movie
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Cast
See allJames Woods
Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
Yaphet Kotto
Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD
Alex Rocco
Detective Bill Butler NYPD
Pam Grier
Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
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