Collision Course (1989) on Netflix
Detective Tony Costas investigates a junkyard killing in Detroit. Inspector Fujitsuka Natsuo arrives from Japan hunting a stolen prototype turbocharger, and the two are forced to work together.
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Plot summary
Oshima is trying to sell a turbocharger to an automaker run by Derek Jarryd, and Scully and Kosnic handle the deal. Oshima pulls out and says he has hidden the part, and he dies before he can tell them where. Detective Tony Costas of Detroit takes the case until his captain pulls him off it, because the man killed at the junkyard was once his partner; he keeps working it with Shortcut, his partner on the force. Inspector Fujitsuka Natsuo, sent from Japan by his boss Kitao, turns up in Oshima's hotel room looking for the same turbocharger. Lieutenant Dingman refuses to pursue the murder of a Japanese national.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Collision Course (1989)
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- Pat Morita and Jay Leno recalled on The Tonight Show in 1989 that the film had run out of money on the last day of filming, with key scenes still unshot and no budget left for editing or post-production.
- The original director John Guillermin, who had made King Kong and King Kong Lives for De Laurentiis, left in pre-production and pushed the shoot back four weeks; Bob Clark replaced him and lasted nine days, including the start of production.
- While making the film, Jay Leno was given a regular Monday night slot on The Tonight Show and performed ten different stand-up shows, but his management said he did not miss a day of filming.
- When Dino de Laurentiis went bankrupt the film fell into the hands of Wells Fargo Bank, and it was given a video release in 1992 to cash in on Jay Leno taking over as permanent host of The Tonight Show.
- Leno and his manager Helen Kushnick were displeased with the film's release, with Kushnick publicly distancing Leno from it. Promotional materials billed it as from the makers of The Jewel of the Nile, Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel, though Cort said he'd never worked on the Airplane! films.
- Much of the film was shot on location in Detroit, showing local landmarks including the now-defunct Trapper's Alley in Greektown and the Garden Bowl, the United States' oldest continuously operating bowling alley.
