Death Warrant (1990) on Netflix
Detective Louis Burke enters Harrison State Prison undercover as an inmate to look into a series of deaths there. Attorney Amanda Beckett plays his wife on the outside.
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Plot summary
A detective with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Louis Burke traces the maniac who killed his partner to an abandoned house in Los Angeles and shoots him. Sixteen months afterward, Burke takes part in a governor's task force looking into a run of deaths inside California's Harrison State Prison. He goes in as an inmate, and the attorney Amanda Beckett poses as his wife on the outside. Burke is locked up with a cellmate named Konefke and comes to know Hawkins, a prison clerk. He steps in when Hawkins is cornered by a gang, but neither man will talk about the deaths.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Warrant (1990)
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- Death Warrant was written by David S. Goyer while he was a student at USC, and it became the first of his screenplays to be sold and produced commercially.
