TY - SER KW - Pittsburgh Police KW - detectives KW - police KW - serial killers AU - Rowdy Herrington AU - Marty Kaplan AB - Tom Hardy (Bruce WIllis), a maverick cop, pursues a serial killer dubbed the Polish Hill Strangler. When Hardy suggests the murderer is a fellow police officer, he's demoted to the river rescue squad but fights back by starting his own unauthorized investigation. C1 -

1991-3

C2 - unpublished C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; City-County Building; Allegheny County Courthouse; Polish Hill; Mt. Washington; Neville Twp. C4 - Thriller; Suspense; Mystery LA - English M3 - Screenplay N1 - The film also stars Dennis Farina and Sarah Jessica Parker and was filmed in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County's Elizabeth and Harrison Twp. The script is held in Beverly Hills at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. N2 - Tom Hardy (Bruce WIllis), a maverick cop, pursues a serial killer dubbed the Polish Hill Strangler. When Hardy suggests the murderer is a fellow police officer, he's demoted to the river rescue squad but fights back by starting his own unauthorized investigation. PY - 1993 RN - Marty Kaplan (1950— ) served as a writer-producer for Disney Studios; chief speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale during the Carter Administration; and dean of the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. Rowdy Herrington (1951— ) is native of Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood and Penn Hills, Allegheny County. A graduate of Penn State, he directed or wrote a half dozen feature films. He lives in Montana. EP - 114 p. TI - Striking Distance ER -