Highlander

1986
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Title: Highlander

Original Title: Highlander

Year: 1986

Info

  • Country: UK
  • Length: 110 Minutes (1 hour 50 min)
  • Budget: $16,000,000
  • Genre: Adventure Action Fantasy
  • Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

  • UK: August 29 1986
  • United States: March 07 1986

Plot

In New York, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash is challenged to a sword fight in the parking lot of the Madison Square Garden by a man called Iman Fasil that is beheaded by Russell. He hides his sword and is arrested by the police while leaving the stadium. Russell recalls his life in the Sixteenth Century in Scotland, when he is Connor MacLeod and is deadly wounded in a battle against another Clan. However he surprisingly survives and his Clan believes he has a pact with the devil and expels him from their lands. Then he meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez that explains that he is immortal unless he is beheaded. Further, the immortals dispute a game killing each other and in the end only one survives receiving a price with the power of the other immortals. Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt is attracted by the case since she founds fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also immortal Kurgan is hunting down MacLeod and Brenda is in the middle of their battle.

Cast

Director:

Russell MulcahyRussell Mulcahy

Jon Polito

Jon Polito

Det. Walter Bedsoe

Sean Connery

Sean Connery

Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez

Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown

Victor Kruger / The Kurgan

Christopher Lambert

Christopher Lambert

Connor 'The Highlander' MacLeod / Russell Edwin Nash

Roxanne Hart

Roxanne Hart

Brenda J. Wyatt

Beatie Edney

Beatie Edney

Heather MacLeod

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Trivia

The film was originally going to take place in Washington D.C. rather than New York City.

Kurt Russell was originally cast as Conner MacLeod. But he later turned down the role after his girlfriend Goldie Shawn advised him to turn it down.

William Hurt, Scott Glen, Peter Weller, David Keith,Sam Shepard and Ed Harris were also considered for the role of Conner Macleod.

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