Black Moon Rising

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Black Moon Rising
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Harley Cokeliss
Produced by	Douglas Curtis
Written by	John Carpenter, William Gray, Desmond Nakano
Starring	Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving, Bubba Smith, Dan Shor
Music by	Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography	Misha Suslov
Editing by	Todd C. Ramsay
Release date(s)	January 10, 1986
Running time	100 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Black Moon Rising, (1986) is an action film directed by Harley Cokeliss, written by John Carpenter and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton and Robert Vaughn. The focus of the film was the theft of a prototype vehicle called the 'Black Moon'.

1 Plot
2 The Car
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Working for the US Government to retrieve a cassette with vital information, Sam Quint, a former CIA agent (Jones), runs into Marvin Ringer (Lee Ving), another hitman he replaced, who is after the same cassette. In a desperate attempt to evade Ringer and get the tape back to a government official (played by Bubba Smith), Quint hides the cassette in a 300-MPH prototype vehicle, the Black Moon, which is on a transporter destined for a public presentation in Los Angeles. Before Quint can recover the cassette, Nina (Hamilton) steals the Black Moon, with Quint on her tail, and returns it to a warehouse, the headquarters for the car thief ring headed by Ed Ryland (Vaughn). Quint must lure Nina into helping him recover the Black Moon, with the help of its driver and his crew, and make it out alive with the cassette and the car before the next day.

[edit] The Car

The Black Moon was based on the 1980 Wingho Concordia II designed by Bernard Beaujardins and Clyde Kwok, made by Wingho Auto Classique in Montreal.^[1]^[2]. Only one of these had been built, so in the movie, a copy of the car cast from a mould was used for stunts, as well as a third replica of the interior only.