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Dead Heat

You can't keep a good cop dead.

1988 · R · 1h 26m

Directed by Mark Goldblatt

6.2

TMDB audience score
251 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

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Cast

  • Treat Williams
    Det. Roger Mortis

  • Joe Piscopo
    Det. Doug Bigelow

  • Lindsay Frost
    Randi James

  • Darren McGavin
    Dr. Ernest McNab

  • Vincent Price
    Arthur P. Loudermilk

  • Robert Picardo
    Lt. Herzog

  • Martha Quinn
    Newscaster

  • Keye Luke
    Mr. Thule

  • Clare Kirkconnell
    Rebecca Smythers

  • Mel Stewart
    Captain Mayberry

  • Shane Black
    Patrolman

  • Pons Maar
    Pool Zombie

  • Professor Toru Tanaka
    Butcher

  • Tom Nolan
    Jonas

  • Lew Hopson
    Whitfield

  • Chip Heller
    Wilcox

  • Monica Lewis
    Mrs. Von Heisenberg

  • Clarence Brown
    Harry Latham