A Running Duck
adapted as "Cobra"
A Running Duck
Non-series
Paula Gosling
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN-10: 0-333-23721-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-23721-2
Published: July 1978
Synopsis: Clare Randell meets a man in a car park by helping him to recover papers that spilled from his brief case. She thought no more about it, but the police did, because the man was a paid assassin and had never been seen. Now Clare knows what he looks like and the killer already knows she must be eliminated.
Additional notes: Winner of the The John Creasey Memorial Award in 1979 for a first book by an unpublished writer. Originally published as Fair Game in the US.
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Cobra
George P. Cosmatos, Director
Theatrical release date: 05/23/1986
DVD release date: 02/24/1998
Studio: Warner Bros.
Cast: Lt. Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone), Ingrid (Brigitte Nielsen), Sergeant Gonzales (Reni Santoni), Detective Monte (Andrew Robinson), Night Slasher (Brian Thompson), Cho (John Herzfeld), Nancy Stalk (Lee Garlington), Captain Sears (Art LaFleur), Supermarket Killer (Marco Rodríguez), Security Guard (Ross St. Phillip), Chief Halliwell (Val Avery)
Rating: R
Running time: 117 minutes
The screenplay for Cobra is reportedly a reworking (using elements of A Running Duck) of Beverly Hills Cop, to which Sylvester Stallone was originally attached.
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