Knight Moves

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Knight Moves/Face to Face
Directed by Carl Schenkel
Produced by Jean-Luc Defait/Ziad El Khoury(producer)/Dieter Geissler/Guy Collins/Gordon Mark
Written by Brad Mirman
Starring Christopher Lambert,
Diane Lane,
Tom Skerritt,
Daniel Baldwin,
Katharine Isabelle,
Charles Bailey-Gates
Music by Anne Dudley
Cinematography Dietrich Lohmann
Editing by Norbert Herzner
Distributed by Republic Pictures (II)/Lamb Bear Entertainment/Ink Slinger/Cinevox Filmproduktion GmbH
Release date(s) [1992 in film
Running time 108 min/Spain 113min/Argentina 116min
Country USA
Language English

Knight Moves is a 1992 American thriller film/Neo-noir/Giallo, directed by Carl Schenkel and written by Brad Mirman, about a chess grandmaster who is accused of several grisly murders.


[edit] Synopsis

They met only once, but back in '72 David & Peter had left lasting impressions on one another, for one of them was stabbed continually with a fountain pen, leaving him with everlasting bodily scars. As for the other, his savage attack on his childhood opponent after his public humiliation and defeat was a catalyst that ended his parent's marriage, as his father left forever; his offspring discovered his mother dying, having been slashed with a broken bottle. This boy spent the next twenty years in and out of asylums and foster care. Now it seems he's become one of the youngest, most successful chess grandmasters in history. Brilliant if troubled widower with a precious daughter, he suddenly finds himself a suspect in his casual lover's murder. When more homicides occur Capt. Frank Sedman and his partner Det. Andy Wagner discover that a serial killer is at work on the New England island. With our chessmaster becoming more and more connected to the deaths, shrink Kathy Sheppard is brought in to figure out if this chess prodigy is as innocent as he claims to be.

[edit] Cast

Actor / Actress Character
Christopher Lambert Peter Sanderson
Diane Lane Kathy Sheppard
Tom Skerritt Capt. Frank Sedman
Daniel Baldwin Det. Andy Wagner
Katharine Isabelle (as Katherine Isobel) Erica Sanderson
Charles Bailey-Gates David Willerman
Blu Mankuma Steve Nolan
Ferdy Mayne(as Ferdinand Mayne) Jeremy Edmonds
Elizabeth Baldwin Christie Eastman
Rachel Hayward Last Victim
Megan Leitch Mother
Codie Lucas Wilbee David at nine
Don Thompson Father
Joshua Murray (Josh Murray) Peter at fourteen
Alex Diakun Grandmaster Lutz
Arthur Brauss Viktor Yurilivich
Elizabeth Barclay Loraine Olson
Aundrea MacDonald Mary Albert
Sam Malkin Doctor Fulton
Kymberly Sheppard Detective Janet McLellan
Deryl Hayes Officer Harton
Kehli O'Byrne Debi Rutlege
Monica Marko Miss Greenwell


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