Cardiac Arrest

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Blood * Not Particularly Violent * No Strong Language * No Nudity *</B></div> <div> <B>* No Sexual Situations * Not Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1978/Color/95 Min./Media Home Entertainment & Film Ventures International & Murriku Production Partners/Rated PG</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director..............Murray Mintz</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay........Murray Mintz</B></div> <div> <B>Music.................Andrew Kulberg</B></div> <div> <B>Producer............Richard Helzberg</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Clancy Higgins.........Garry Goodrow (The Connection, Steelyard Blues)</B></div> <div> <B>Wylie Wong.............Mike Chan</B></div> <div> <B>Leigh Gregory..........Maxwell Gail (Barney Miller-TV, D.C. Cab)</B></div> <div> <B>Dianne Gregory........Susan O'Connell</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Norton Williams..Ray Reinhardt</B></div> <div> <B>Harvey Nichols.........Robert A. Berling</B></div> <div> <B>Jamie......................Fred Ward (Henry & June, Short Cuts, Tremors)</B></div> <div> <B>Captain Olderman...John "Allen" Vick </B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Singh.................Ed Vasgersian</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Swan...............Marjorie Morley Eaton</B></div> <div> <B>Fred Eaton..............Matthew Locricchio</B></div> <div> <B>Junkie.....................Steve Hoff</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Detectives hunt an unethical organ dealer who can't wait for donations, but simply takes them. Snore. We didn't actually see them break out the coffee, but the amount of time spent with cops is a definite horror no no. Indeed, although this film is usually found on horror racks, which is why it appears here, it is much more in the tradition of The Streets of San Francisco, if the grisly M.O. of the serial killers make it a relative of the horror movie. Perhaps the misleading cover illustration of the bloody evil surgeon holding out a fresh heart for the renter's perusal or its made for cable-access grainy film quality are sufficient conditions--not. Also, the squeamish handling of the problem is more a element of the detective story. For a detective thriller, horror's boring cousin, it's not a bad one. The three leads are executed with made for television efficiency, the pace is engaging, and the plot/case development well integrated. Very 70's TV production values either add or subtract, depending upon what you expect from a detective story set in San Francisco of 1980. We thought it was a perfect fit, but for one question; where were Detectives Stone and Keller?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: San Francisco. A TV report details the third "missing heart murder", noting that "No comment" is all they can get from Chief Detective Inspector Clancy Higgins. Criminologist Dr. Wylie Wong and Chief Higgins are called to room 207 of the Raphael Hotel where a suspect is cornered and Higgins finds bloody surgical gloves. When he sees the body, Higgins barfs in the bathroom although it has not yet been dusted for prints. In 208, an elderly woman warns someone to be quiet as the police knock to interview her. Mrs. Swan was frosting a welcome home cake for her sick friend Clara when she heard a scream. Coughing from the closet exposes octogenarian Duke Southcliff who has the murderers suitcase. Back at the hospital, Mrs. Gregory has a severe rheumatic-valvular heart disease and her condition is deteriorating rapidly. She will need a transplant. At the museum, Dr. Tucker tells the detectives the only tribe that still practices ritual ingestion of hearts is in Borneo. Tissue matching is explained. The victims were all dehydrated for days, anesthetized, and operated on cleanly with a scalpel. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton check in to the hotel. Clancy and Dr. Wong argue over police method and split up to pursue the case in their own ways. The suitcase salesman, who sold the murderer his says the guy was nervous and produces a copy of the credit card receipt. Mr. Singh, the Hotel owner is sick of the cops in his place. Meanwhile Frederico Etoni's house is surrounded by shotgun toting cops led by Wong demanding he give himself up. Wong traces the receipt. The otherwise innocent adulterer Etoni says he had brought a woman to the room and the dead woman was already dead when they got there. Meanwhile, Mr. Gregory gets a call from a man who can arrange to get a heart for his wife. He tells Gregory to think about it and he'll call him back. Gregory thinks he's an extortionist. He was hesitant to tell his wife about it who listened on another line. Mrs. Gregory goes to the doctor and says she has money. Doctor Tucker says there's no way to speed up the process. Chief Higgins asks  Dr. Tucker about the possibility of a black market in human organs. Tucker says it's an insult to even think of such a thing, but then agrees to talk about it. Higgins overhears a discussion with a man named Walker who is a resident with a "business on the side". Walker had been in Vietnam. Although the desperate Diane Gregory wants to go ahead, Mr. Gregory suspects there might be murder behind it and is hesitant. Dr. Tucker calls the mayor about his conversation with Higgins. Gregory goes to an appointed place and the organ dealer tells him the price will be two hundred thousand in a Swiss escrow account. The curare on artifacts in the museum is tested and found to be still deadly. Someone in a hockey mask breaks into medical records. The security guard apprehends him but gets stabbed, and the intruder steals prescriptions and drugs to throw the cops off. However, he left a medical record in the copy machine and some matches from a hospital not used at that clinic. A junkie finds the scripts and drugs in a garbage can. The police get a description of a red Cadillac which fled the scene. Chief Higgins heads out to the hospital named on the matches and is told there are orders from the Mayor not to go to that hospital. He goes anyway. Higgins leans on Dr. Tucker and gets hooked up to a beeper. Soon he's pulled away from a picnic with his girlfriend as drug overdose is brought in. Higgins is very impressed with Tucker's performance and thinks that he can't be involved in any black organ market. But immediately, a woman shows up in a hospital room without a heart. The woman is the same one who Higgins just saw operated upon. Higgins goes to the ambulance man who brought in the murdered woman and leaves his wallet there by mistake. All the victims had been mugged shortly before they were murdered. The guy whose name was in the photocopy machine has just been mugged and the cops decide to follow Tommy. They find out that Mrs. Gregory's blood type matches his. Even though he is being followed by a detective, Tommy is spirited out of a Safeway store. Higgins goes back to the ambulance guy to look for his wallet and actually sits on the stretcher in which drugged Tommy lies. The cops set a trap and a showdown ensues in which the organ dealer is killed in a junkyard shootout.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>