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Post by london777 on Sept 11, 2017 15:38:00 GMT
I was swapping emails last night with an acquaintance who is a bail bondsman in the USA. He complained that guys in his profession were usually depicted as the baddies in movies.
I do not watch many action thrillers so he may be right, but I could only remember two bail bondsmen in movies and they were both sympathetic characters:
Robert De Niro's lead character in Midnight Run (1988)
The bondsman in Winter's Bone (2010) who seems the most humane and civilized character in the movie
Can anyone suggest any other "sympathetic" bail bondsmen to whom I can draw my correspondent's attention?
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Post by wmcclain on Sept 11, 2017 15:50:08 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Sept 11, 2017 18:07:54 GMT
Blood Money 1933 dir Rowland Brown, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee. Bill Bailey (Bancroft) is a Los Angeles bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed.
The Hunter 1980 dir Buzz Kulik, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold. The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.
Truck Turner 1976 dir Jonathan Kaplan, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks. Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry and she puts a hit on Truck
A Dangerous Profession 1949 dir Ted Tetzlaff, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien. LA ex-cop Vince Kane (Raft) is a bail-bondsman who bails out the suspect of a securities bonds robbery but his client disappears, prompting Vince to investigate.
If I have understood the system right, behind every bounty hunter, their is a Bail Bondsman, and it's that person who decides who will get the job.
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Post by london777 on Sept 11, 2017 22:41:02 GMT
How did I omit this one? My favourite Tarantino film. A bondsman not only sympathetic but amorous with it!
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Post by london777 on Sept 11, 2017 22:46:08 GMT
If I have understood the system right, behind every bounty hunter, their is a Bail Bondsman, and it's that person who decides who will get the job. So in Midnight Run (1988), is De Niro the bounty hunter and the creep who assigns him the job the bail bondsman? I am not sure I am qualified to have launched this thread.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 11, 2017 23:17:03 GMT
Joe Pantoliano is the bail bondsman in Midnight Run. While sleazy, he's not the ultimate baddy. Dennis Farina is.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 11, 2017 23:23:44 GMT
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