Framed for his ex-wife's murder by a parolee he once put behind bars, Los Angeles cop Jack Murphy escapes from custody to capture the killer, but he is now handcuffed to a foul-mouthed thief... Read allFramed for his ex-wife's murder by a parolee he once put behind bars, Los Angeles cop Jack Murphy escapes from custody to capture the killer, but he is now handcuffed to a foul-mouthed thief he had only just arrested.Framed for his ex-wife's murder by a parolee he once put behind bars, Los Angeles cop Jack Murphy escapes from custody to capture the killer, but he is now handcuffed to a foul-mouthed thief he had only just arrested.
- Carl
- (as Joseph Spallina Roman)
- Tony Vincenzo
- (as Chris De Rose)
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Storyline
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- TriviaDirector J. Lee Thompson and producer Pancho Kohner sat down with Kathleen Wilhoite prior to shooting to discuss how to get along with her co-star Charles Bronson. Their advice worked and Bronson and Wilhoite got along splendidly on set.
- GoofsMurphy and Arabella leave Murphy's friend's cabin (right before he's murdered by Joan Freeman) and that very evening, Arabella sees a newspaper with the heading "Escaped Cop Kills Again". The newspaper even writes that Arabella is his accomplice. However, there's no reason for the police to assume that the murderer was Murphy. Joan Freeman shoots the victim with his own rifle, not Murphy's gun. Moreover, it's highly implausible that the police could even know about a murder in a very remote cabin in the woods, make inquiries and somehow mark Murphy as a suspect, and get the story into the evening papers, all in the space of a few hours.
- Quotes
Frank Vincenzo: [threateningly] Oh, Murphy, let me ask you: you ever hear of Murphy's law? "If anything can possibly go wrong, it will." A lot of things could happen to someone like you: you can get run over by a truck; the gas heater in your apartment could blow up; or you could lose a wheel going down the freeway at 80 miles an hour. Got to remember that.
[Murphy, unimpressed by the mobster's threats, bends forward, smiling]
Jack Murphy: The only law I know is "Jack Murphy's law." It's very simple: don't *fuck* with Jack Murphy. You remember that.
- SoundtracksMurphy's Law
Written and Performed by Paul McCallum, Kathleen Wilhoite and John Bisharat
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,947,631
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,388,907
- Apr 20, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $9,947,631
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1