Relentless (1989) on Netflix
Arthur Taylor, turned away by the LAPD Academy, opens a phone directory and picks the strangers he will kill. Detectives Bill Malloy and Sam Dietz take the case.
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Plot summary
Arthur Taylor was rejected by the LAPD Academy, and his father, a former Los Angeles police officer, counted him a failure. He takes his anger out on the city by opening a phone directory, choosing a name at random and killing the person who owns it. What he learned of police work lets him cover his tracks. The search for him falls to Bill Malloy, a veteran detective, and Sam Dietz, a rookie who has just transferred to Los Angeles from New York.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Relentless (1989)
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- When Shapiro's company ran into financial problems Lustig made the film for CineTel Films and retitled it Relentless, which had been the original title of the 1985 Sam Raimi movie Crimewave; Lustig asked Raimi's permission, and Raimi was given a special thanks in the end credits.
