Michael Douglas
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The Star Chamber is a 1983 American crime thriller film starring Michael Douglas, [1] Hal Holbrook, [2] [3] 1 Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, [4] [5] James B. Sikking, [6] [7] and Joe Regalbuto. [8] [9] [10] The film was written by Roderick Taylor and Peter Hyams and directed by Hyams. [11] Its title is taken from the name of the Star Chamber, a ...
Aug 5, 1983 · The Star Chamber: Directed by Peter Hyams. With Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless. Frustrated with a legal system gone haywire, a secret society of judges hires hitmen to snuff out criminals who escape courtroom justice - but one young judge questions the ethics of their vigilante system.
- (7.8K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Hyams
- 1983-08-05
Synopsis. As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
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- Peter Hyams
- R
- 18
The Star Chamber. Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is discouraged by the failures of the legal system after seeing hardened criminals go free on technicalities. Acknowledging Hardin's ...
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- Peter Hyams
- R
- Michael Douglas
"The Star Chamber" works brilliantly until it locks into a plot. Then it stops dancing and starts marching. The movie opens with a series of intriguing scenes showing a series of shocking miscarriages of justice. Fiends and perverts are caught red-handed, confess to their crimes and then are put back on the streets again because of minor legal technicalities.
Nearby, Officer Pickett and Officer Nelson (David Proval) stop a van that has two outstanding warrants and notice that two thugs inside, Lawrence Monk (Don Calfa) and Arthur Cooms (Joe Regalbuto), are nervous. Pickett detects marijuana and instructs his partner, Nelson, to search the van. When Nelson sees a bloodied boy's sneaker in the rear of ...
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