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L.A. Takedown is a crime/thriller made for TV movie that aired on NBC on August 27, 1989 at 9 pm. It was written and directed by Michael Mann, and its ensemble cast includes Scott Plank, Alex McArthur, Michael Rooker, Daniel Baldwin, and Xander Berkeley.
A movie pilot for a series not picked up by NBC. A young, street-wise police detective puts his life and reputation in jeopardy when he encounters a criminal who manages to keep on step ahead. After an elaborately staged robbery during which three guards are killed, the policeman realizes he's up ag.
Dec 15, 2020 · Like “Heat,” “L.A. Takedown” involves a crew and a violent robbery. NBC. “I abridged it, severely,” Mann explained in a 1997 BBC featurette, slicing some 70 pages from the script ...
Certificate: 15. Original Title: LA Takedown. Notable only for being the progenitor of Heat, this is Michael Mann s least accomplished movie to date. Take Heat, its basic scenario cop (Scott Plank ...
2 After making The Last of the Mohicans, Mann returned to a 1986 draft of L.A. Takedown, viewing the TV movie as a dry run for the film he had originally written, which was intended as a much more ...
May 19, 2000 · LA Takedown makes for an interesting period-piece: in effect made as a pilot for a Michael Mann series that never happened, and completed as a made-for-TV one-off film. The filmed kernel of a much longer script that would then be further heavily modified, it subsequently proved to be a dry-run for Heat, although that was not the intention at ...
Tough Los Angeles cop Vincent Hanna takes on a gang of professional bank robbers led by the precise, enigmatic Patrick McLaren.
