Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) on Netflix
R19911h 36m
Los Angeles, 1948: magic is everywhere, but private eye Harry Philip Lovecraft will not use it. Amos Hackshaw hires him to recover the stolen Necronomicon, which mobster Harry Bordon also wants.
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Plot summary
Magic is common in this 1948 Los Angeles, and mythological creatures are too. Private detective Harry Philip Lovecraft will not use magic, for personal reasons. His refusal is why wealthy widower Amos Hackshaw picks him to get back the Necronomicon, a grimoire that Hackshaw had stolen before it was taken from him. Hackshaw's teenage daughter Olivia hunts unicorns, which lore says only female virgins can approach. A lead sends Lovecraft to the Dunwich Nightclub, where an old girlfriend, Connie Stone, sings. There he also meets Harry Bordon, once his partner in the police department and now a mobster who wants the book as well.
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- HBO Pictures senior vice president Robert Cooper picked up Joseph Dougherty's script, then titled Lovecraft and intended for a $25 million shoot, and handed producer Gale Anne Hurd only $6.2 million and a strict schedule; she was confident thanks to her time under Roger Corman at New World Pictures.
