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The Hit is a 1984 British road crime film directed by Stephen Frears, and starring John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Laura del Sol and Tim Roth in his film debut. It was Stamp's first starring role in over a decade, and Roth won an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
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Mar 8, 1985 · The Hit: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke, Terence Stamp. Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Stephen Frears
- 1985-03-08
The Hit. Directed by Stephen Frears • 1984 • United Kingdom. Starring Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth. Terence Stamp is Willie, a gangster’s henchman turned “supergrass” (informer) trying to live in peaceful hiding in a remote Spanish village.
A gangster informer (Terence Stamp) is hunted by two hit men (John Hurt and Tim Roth) in a Spanish village. The Hit is a 1984 British thriller with a star-studded cast, a Clapton soundtrack, and a Frears direction.
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Jan 29, 2022 · Everything about “The Hit” is archetypal and genre-defining. “The Hit” prefigured John Woo’s “The Killer” and those two 1980s movies reset the template for the genre. And looking at it nearly 40 years later, what stands out is the moment-in-time perfection of it all.
Overview. The Hit is the sequel to cult favorite Straight Out of Compton, in which Blair Underwood stars as Hen, an up-and-coming record executive whose goal is to bring all rival rap record labels together and form one black-owned label that gives back to the community.
