Badge of the Assassin
Released: January 4, 1985Runtime: 96 min
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
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James Woods
as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
Yaphet Kotto
as Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD
Alex Rocco
as Detective Bill Butler NYPD
David Harris
as Lester Bertram Day
Steven Keats
as Harold Skelton, Defense Attorney
Larry Riley
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Pam Grier
as Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
Rae Dawn Chong
as Christine Horn
Richard Bradford
as L.J. Delsa
Kene Holiday
as Albert Washington
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