Hangfire

Hangfire

R 1991 · 91 min · ★ 4.7 · Action, Thriller

When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.

Directed by Peter Maris · Written by Brian D. Jeffries

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