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| Directed by | Bruce Malmuth |
| Screenplay by | David Shaber |
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| Produced by | Martin Poll |
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| Cinematography | James A. Contner |
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| Music by | Keith Emerson |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States[1][2] |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million[citation needed] |
| Box office | $19.9 million[3] |
Nighthawks is a 1981 American neo-noir action crime drama film directed by Bruce Malmuth and starring Sylvester Stallone with Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta, Nigel Davenport, and Rutger Hauer. Its score was composed by Keith Emerson. The film was noted for production problems.[4]
The film follows a pair of international terrorists who come to New York City and the police detectives who, as part of a newly-formed anti-terrorism squad, are tasked with identifying and neutralizing them.
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... Nighthawks went through a troubled production cycle filled with rewrites and reshoots.