Walking the Edge is a 1983

1983 in film

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 crime film

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

, action film

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

 written by Curt Allen and directed by Norbert Meisel. The film stars Robert Forster

Robert Forster

Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Early life :Forster was born Robert Wallace...

, Nancy Kwan

Nancy Kwan

Nancy "Ka Shen" Kwan is a Eurasian-American actress, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian descent in major Hollywood film roles...

, Joe Spinell

Joe Spinell

Joe Spinell was an American character actor, who appeared in numerous films in the 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:...

, A Martinez

A Martinez

Adolfo Larrue Martinez, III , better known as A Martinez, is an American actor and singer with roles in the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara and the primetime dramas L.A. Law and Profiler.-Early life:...

, James McIntire, Wayne Woodson

Wayne Woodson

Wayne Woodson is a stage and film actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1980s.In 1981, he had a role as the jail guard in a Paul Wendkos directed TV drama The Five of Me which starred David Birney, Dee Wallace, Mitch Ryan and James Whitmore. He had a part in the 1982 film I Ought to Be in...

, Luis Contreras

Luis Contreras (actor)

Luis Contreras was a Hispanic-American character actor. The son of actor Roberto Contreras, his film debut was in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Contreras often played the parts of bums, gang members, police officers, prison inmates, and criminals...

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This film at first seems to be the average run of the mill violent exploitation action drama of the '80s but as the film unfolds it becomes apparent that the acting, lively dialogue, interesting characters in the film and its direction take the film to a different level.

Plot

A criminal gang led by Joe Spinnel enter a home with the intention of killing a man. A housewife played by Nancy Kwan survives the hit that kills her husband and son. Shocked, she discovers that her upstanding citizen of a husband played by Phil H. Fravel was a drug dealer. She decides to take revenge on the criminal gang that has murdered her husband and son. A "down on his luck" L.A. taxi driver and numbers runner played by Robert Forster unwittingly becomes involved. He helps her in her quest to survive and take revenge on the people who murdered her family.

Availability

The film was released on videocassette in 1985 by Vestron Video. Afterwards, Anchor Bay

Anchor Bay Entertainment

Anchor Bay Entertainment is a U.S. based home entertainment and production company and is a division of Starz Media, which is a unit of Starz, LLC. It was previously owned by IDT Entertainment until 2006 when IDT was purchased by Starz Media. Anchor Bay markets and sells feature films, series,...

released the film onto DVD in 2000. The DVD contained a commentary by director Norbert Meisel and stars Nancy Kwan and Robert Forster. The DVD has now been discontinued and as of May 24, 2010, no plans have been made to re-release the film onto DVD.

Cast

• Robert Forster .... Jason Walk
• Nancy Kwan .... Christine Holloway
• Joe Spinell .... Brusstar
• A Martinez .... Tony
• James McIntire .... Jimmy
• Wayne Woodson .... McKee
• Doug Toby .... Danny Holloway
• Phil H. Fravel .... Jerry Holloway
• Luis Contreras .... Jesus
• Terrence Beasor .... Gambler Bob
• Bernard Erhard .... Fat Man
• Jim Fitzpatrick .... Fat Man's Bodyguard (as James Fitzpatrick)
• Ivy Bethune .... Mrs. Johnson
• Jacqueline Giroux .... Linda (as Jackie Giroux)
• Aarika Wells .... Julia
• Howard Honig .... Ron
• Frankie Hill .... Delia
• Russ Courtney .... Leon
• Jerry Jones ... Gabby
• Leonard D'John .... Mickey
• Peter Pan ... Chinese Herbalist
• Jamie V. Arias .... Tango Man
• Rosa M. Torres .... Tango Woman
• Stan Kamber .... Punk Rock Bartender