Film

Sharky's Machine 1981

Directed by Burt Reynolds

  • Crime, Drama, Action, Thriller
  • 122 min
  • R

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Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and spare.

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  • sparerichly built
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