A killer for hire named Raven kills his target. However, he believes that he was just killing an ordinary person, but before he knows it, there's a massive manhunt for him. It seems that the man he killed is a senator. While trying to evade the police, he takes a woman, Anne hostage. Though he eventually lets her go. She develops some kind of fascination for him, which doesn't please her boyfriend, who just happens to be the one who tracking Raven. At the same time Raven tries to find out who set him up and why.
Acting
Robert Wagner's hilariously unconvincing assassin intensity.
Production
Genuine 1991 TV movie aesthetic — every frame screams cable.
Director
Lou Antonio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a remake of the 1942 Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake classic — the downgrade from Hollywood golden age to cable TV movie is almost poetic.
Robert Wagner was 61 playing this romantic lead hitman; the age gap with Nancy Everhard (34) went unremarked upon in 1991.
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