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Desperate

19871h 10m9.0/ 10 · TMDB · 1 votes
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In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.

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Directed by Peter Markle

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Ansh Kapoor

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The people behind the story

John Savage
John Savage

Noah

Meg Foster
Meg Foster

Dorymae

Chris Burke
Chris Burke

Louis

Liane Langland
Liane Langland

Deirdre O'Donohue

Andrew Robinson
Andrew Robinson

Seamus

J.A. Preston
J.A. Preston

Wiggee

George Dickerson
George Dickerson

LeClerc

Castulo Guerra
Castulo Guerra

Estabumante

Frances Foster
Frances Foster

Loretta

Byrne Piven
Byrne Piven

Law Judge

Ned Bellamy
Ned Bellamy

Agent Carter

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Film details

Released19 Sept 1987
Original languageEnglish
CountriesUnited States of America
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Patrick John Hurley
Patrick John Hurley

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