The Punisher
If society won't punish the guilty, he will.
The Punisher (1989)
Timing:
1:29 (89 min)
5.748/10
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6.512/10
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5.7/10
28000
28000
Country
Production
Genre
Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Romance
Budget
$9 000 000
Revenue
$0
Director
Actors
Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Miyori, Bryan Marshall, Nancy Everhard, Barry Otto, Brian Rooney, Zoshka Mizak, Kenji Yamaki
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Robert Mark Kamen, Barry Bernardi, Robert Guralnick
Operator
Composer
Dennis Dreith
Artist
Audition
Melissa Skoff
Editing
Tim Wellburn
All team (83)
All team (83)
Short description
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. His ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast and became the Punisher, living in the sewers and exacting vigilante violence against mob bosses throughout the city. When the populace is caught in the midst of a gang war that he caused, Castle must again emerge from the shadows and save the innocent.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was released widely in all countries except the USA.
- Initially, the film was supposed to be shot on a tiny budget with unknown Australian actors.
- The director's cut is 17 minutes longer than the theatrical version.
- The main criticism from fans of the Punisher comic book concerned dissatisfaction with the lack of Dolph Lundgren's 'signature' Skull on the hero's t-shirt.
- Mark Goldblatt received perhaps the smallest fee among all the film's creators.
- Producer Robert Mark Kamen, having seen Dolph Lundgren's size firsthand, demanded that he lose about 14 kg. The reason was that according to the plot, Frank Castle lives in a dungeon, eats whatever he finds, and doesn't always have the opportunity to train. Therefore, he couldn't look so huge. Dolph completed the task.
- The Punisher was created by Gerry Conway, Johnny Romita, and Ross Andru and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #129 (1974).
- The film was shot in the city of Sydney, Australia.
- In reality, Japanese Yakuza do not have women in their organization, let alone female bosses.
- At the end of the film, former partner Jake Berkovich is on the roof of a building with railings; in another shot, he leans against the concrete barriers without railings of another building, from which, apparently, a more picturesque view of the city could have been filmed.
- The main criticism from fans of the Punisher comic book was dissatisfaction with the absence of Dolph Lundgren's "signature" Skull on the hero's t-shirt.
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