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Endangered Species

Release Date: September 10, 1982

Year	:	1982
Slogan	:	«What You Don't Know Can Kill You.»
Genres	:	Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Production Companies	:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Alive Enterprises
Director	:	Alan Rudolph
Producers	:	Jane Feinberg, Mike Fenton, Zalman King, Carolyn Pfeiffer, Ken Swor
Writers	:	John Binder, Alan Rudolph, Judd Klinger, Richard Clayton Woods
RunTime	:	97 mins.

Thriller about a New York ex-cop and an attractive female sheriff who fall in love while investigating a string of mysterious cattle mutilations in a small Colorado town. Urich is great as Reuben Castle, the retired alcoholic police lieutenant out visiting the town with his tomboy daughter. At first he tries to stay out of the case but finds himself involved after the mysterious death of his friend Joe Hiatt, the editor of the local paper whose theories about black helicopters have aroused the ire of cattle baron Ben Morgan. Trying miserably to stay sober, Castle finds himself back in danger and in love, as he and the sheriff work together to get to the bottom of the mystery, encountering incredible danger and resistance from the frightened locals.