Martial Law (1991 film)

Martial Law is a 1991 American action/martial arts film written by Richard Brandes, produced by Kurt Anderson, directed by Steve Cohen and stars Chad McQueen, Cynthia Rothrock and David Carradine.

Martial Law
Directed by	Steve Cohen
Written by	Richard Brandes
Produced by	Kurt Anderson
Starring	Chad McQueen Cynthia Rothrock David Carradine
Cinematography	John Huneck
Edited by	Michael Thibault
Music by	Elliot Solomon
Distributed by	Various
Release date	May 16, 1991 (1991-05-16)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Two cops - Sean Thompson (Chad McQueen) and his partner Billie Blake (Cynthia Rothrock) are on the front line in the city's never ending war on crime. In addition to the routine small-time robberies they're dealing with on a daily basis, they must face a very dangerous and powerful man called Dalton Rhodes (David Carradine), who's not only a smuggler of guns and stolen luxury cars, but also a master of martial arts. Police are finding one body after another of mafia related people (all killed with bare hands). Sean and Billie have only vague clues in this case and no idea who's actually behind those murders. An aid in solving the riddle is to come from Sean's troubled younger brother Michael, who's found himself working for the mob boss Rhodes. Soon he'll learn that an easy way to get rich is also extremely dangerous and sometimes lethal.

Cast

• Chad McQueen as Officer Sean Thompson
• Cynthia Rothrock as Officer Billie Blake
• David Carradine as Dalton Rhoades
• Andy McCutcheon as Michael Thompson
• Philip Tan as Wu Han
• Tony Longo as Booker
• John Fujioka as Chang
• Vincent Craig Dupree as 'Faster' Brown
• Jim Malinda as Captain Sykes
• Rick Walters as Colonel Cramer
• Patricia Wilson as Grace
• Lars Lundgren as Ruppin
• Professor Toru Tanaka as Jimmy Kong

Release

The film was released directly to VHS in 1991 by Media Home Entertainment and CBS/FOX. The film has been released on DVD in Europe, by Bellevue entertainment. It is part of movie package (contains four movies on two DVDs), along with Savate, Martial Law II: Undercover, and Mission of Justice.

On November 27, 2020, the cult label Vinegar Syndrome revealed a Blu-ray double feature of Martial Law and Martial Law II as part of their VSA line of limited editions, with both films remastered in 4K from their original camera negatives, marking their first release in the US since VHS.

External links

• Martial Law at IMDb
• Martial Law at AllMovie
• Martial Law at the TCM Movie Database
• Martial Law at Rotten Tomatoes
• Martial Law at Letterboxd