The Evil That Men Do (1984) on Netflix
R19841h 30mActionDramaThriller
Holland, a retired assassin, refuses to hunt the torturer called The Doctor until he learns his friend Jorge died at his hands. He agrees to go with Rhiana and her daughter Sarah.
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Plot summary
Clement Molloch is a doctor who turns his skills to torture instead of healing, and he works for governments that hire him to deal with insurgents. In Suriname he kills the journalist Jorge Hidalgo with electricity in front of officials. Holland, a retired assassin, lives quietly in the Cayman Islands until an old friend asks him to assassinate Molloch. Holland refuses at first. When he learns that Jorge, his friend, died at Molloch's hands, and sees video testimonies from victims in Chile and Asia, he changes his mind. He wants to travel as a family man, so he sets out for Guatemala, where Molloch is based, accompanied by Rhiana, the widow of his friend Jorge, and by Sarah, her daughter.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Evil That Men Do (1984)
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- Jill Ireland dropped out of playing the female lead and gave the role to Theresa Saldana, an actress who had survived a recent stalking attack and was trying to re-establish her career.
- John Crowther was hired on a weekly contract to rewrite R. Lance Hill's first draft, but the producers drastically extended his deal once they realized how much rewriting the script needed.
- Director Fielder Cook was fired about a week into pre-production in Mexico, and J. Lee Thompson was called in to replace him only days before filming was to start.
- The script cut seven minor characters from the novel, along with vignettes such as Molloch's surreal dream of being tortured in a concentration camp by Josef Mengele.
