Murder at 1600: Difference between revisions

| name = Murder at 1600

| image = Murder at sixteen hundred ver2.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = [[Dwight H. Little]]

| producer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Arnold Kopelson]]<br
* />[[Arnon Milchan]]

* [[Dennis Miller]]
}}

| music = [[Christopher Young]]

| editing = {{Plainlist|
* [[Leslie Jones (film editor)|Leslie Jones]]<br
* />[[Billy Weber]]

'''''Murder at 1600''''' is a 1997 American [[action film|action]] [[thriller (genre)|thriller film]] directed by [[Dwight H. Little]] and starring [[Wesley Snipes]] and [[Diane Lane]].

Parallel to this, the White House has to deal with an impending international crisis: [[President of the United States|President]] Jack Neil has been trying to deal with a situation where AmericansAmerican servicemen are being held hostage in [[North Korea]], and some people—including several members of his inner circle, led by [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] Gordon Dylan—think that Neil is not handling it the right way. Some people think that Neil should send troops to North Korea to rescue the hostages, but he does not want to risk a potential second [[Korean War]].

In a picture of Carla, Regis sees Burton Cash, the Secret Service agent assigned to Kyle Neil, the president's son. Regis figures out that Kyle had sex with Carla on the night of the murder. At a dance club, Regis talks with a young woman who says that Kyle once bragged that he once shared Carlaa mistress with his father. Carla's uncle's company, Brookline Associates, is the president's leading [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] fundraiser, and also owns the apartment that Carla lived in.

With some clues left by Jordan, Regis finds out that Spikings has withheld several surveillance tapes from the night of the murder. Regis goes to Spikings' residence to question him; Spikings is willing to show the tape but is suddenly killed by a [[sniper]]. However, Regis and Chance escape the gunfire with the tape. They learn that the sniper was Carla's murderer and that Jordan engineered the murder in order to [[blackmail]] Neil into resigning, which would allow Dylan to assume office and have troops sent to North Korea.

* [[Alan Alda]] as National Security AdviserAdvisor Alvin Jordan

* [[Tom Wright (American actor)|Tom Wright]] as Secret Service Agent Cooper

* [[Charles Rocket]] as Jeffrey Arthur Brose

* [[Tony Nappo]] as Corey Luchessi

* [[David Gardner (actor)|David Gardner]] as Speaker Of The House

Although scenes were filmed in Washington, D.C., primary locations were in [[Toronto|Toronto, Canada]] and nearby locations in [[Ontario]]. As ''[[Absolute Power (film)|Absolute Power]]'' was occupying the [[Oval Office]] set built for ''[[Dave (film)|Dave]]'', a new Oval Office was built at [[Cinespace Film Studios#Kleinburg|Cinespace Film Studios]] in [[Kleinburg]]. The film crew made many visits to the White House for reference in making what production designer Nelson Coates described as "the most architecturally accurate" recreation of the room. The Oval Office still stands at the studio, and has been used in productions such as ''[[Dick (film)|Dick]]'' and ''[[The Sentinel (2006 film)|The Sentinel]]''.<ref>{{cite webnews|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/movies/oval-offices-by-way-of-hollywood.html|title=Oval Offices, by Way of Hollywood|first=Linda|last=Lee|work=The New York Times |date=13 April 1997 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://torontoist.com/2009/11/reel_toronto_murder_at_1600/|title=Reel Toronto: Murder at 1600|last=Torontoist|date=25 November 2009}}</ref>

* {{IMDb title|0119731}}

* {{Mojotcmdb title|murderat1600id=300450}}

[[Category:English-language action thriller films]]