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Blow Out is a 1981 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. [3] The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film , unintentionally captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential ...
When he runs back the tapes he made he hears very clearly a gunshot before the tire blows out and the car goes into the river. The audio meter clearly leaps off the chart when the shot is heard and Jack digs deeper. He comes to know that a photographer was in the bushes waiting for the car, and shot the entire accident.
Travolta plunges in after it, rescues a girl inside (Nancy Allen), and later discovers that the car's drowned driver was a potential presidential candidate. Still later, reviewing his sound recording of the event, Travolta becomes convinced that he can hear a gunshot just before the blowout. Was the accident actually murder?
'Blow Out' (1981) is a great thriller written and directed by Brian De Palma, starring John Travolta as a movie sound effects technician who accidentally records a murder. The film has a great Hitchcock style touch to it and is one of the best thrillers of the 1980s.
Jul 24, 1981 · Blow Out: Directed by Brian De Palma. With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz. A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
- (65K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Brian De Palma
- 1981-07-24
Upon analysing the recording of the accident, Jack confirms that he heard a gunshot just before the blowout. He knows that the tyre was shot out, and the Governor was assassinated. Despite his promise to keep quiet, Jack refuses to be pushed around by the system and supress the truth. "Nobody wants to hear about conspiracy! I don't get it!"
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Travolta plunges in after it, rescues a girl inside (Nancy Allen), and later discovers that the car's drowned driver was a potential presidential candidate. Still later, reviewing his sound recording of the event, Travolta becomes convinced that he can hear a gunshot just before the blowout. Was the accident actually murder?
