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Against All Odds
Against All Odds is a 1984 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. The film is an adaptation of the 1946 novel Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring. The novel was previously adapted as Out of the Past (1947), a film in which Greer played the femme fatale. The film's plot is about an aging American football star who is hired by a mobster to find his girlfriend.
Plot
Professional football player Terry Brogan is released by his team, the Outlaws. Aging, injured and in need of money, he is contacted by an old acquaintance, gambler and nightclub owner Jake Wise. Jake wants Terry to locate his girlfriend, Jessie Wyler, who also happens to be the daughter of Mrs. Wyler, the Outlaws' owner. Terry is reluctant to take on the job, but he needs the money and knows Wise is capable of blackmailing him for a point-shaving incident.
More details
| author | Eric Hughes |
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| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Taylor Hackford |
| editor | Fredric Steinkamp William Steinkamp |
| genre | crime drama thriller |
| keywords | american football blackmail break in business partner chichen itza coach cozumel estranged mother football frame gamble injured kill nightclub owner point shaving security guard turn |
| musicBy | Larry Carlton |
| producer | Taylor Hackford William S. Gilmore |
| productionCompany | Columbia-Delphi Productions New Visions |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles Mexico |
| theme | neo-noir romantic drama romantic thriller |