"Miami Vice" No Exit (1984)

Director:

David Soul

Writers:

Anthony Yerkovich (creator)
Maurice Hurley (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Miami Vice" (1984)

Original Air Date:

9 November 1984 (Season 1, Episode 7)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Police | Undercover | Drugs | Miami Florida

Cast

Don Johnson	...	Detective James Crockett
Philip Michael Thomas	...	Detective Ricardo Tubbs
Saundra Santiago	...	Detective Gina Calabrese
Michael Talbott	...	Detective Stan Switek
John Diehl	...	Detective Larry Zito
Olivia Brown	...	Detective Trudy Joplin (credit only)
Edward James Olmos	...	Lieutenant Martin Castillo
Bruce Willis	...	Tony Amato
Norman Parker	...	Nick Pappas
Tom Mardirosian	...	McIntyre
Coati Mundi	...	Ramone
Bill Cwikowski	...	Guns Dealer
Katherine Borowitz	...	Rita Amato
Vinnie Curto	...	Tony's Bodyguard
Al Garrison	...	Gentle

Runtime:

Finland:36 min (DVD)

Language:

English

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the scenes when Amato's house is under surveillance, it would be impossible (with early 80s technology) to use a 200X telescope clearly while on a bobbing sailboat, but as shown, the telescope view is rock solid, while every other view from the sailboat is shown bobbing with the water.

Soundtrack:

I Don't Care Anymore

Top Notch Episode

No Exit, like many of Miami Vice episodes is superb. This one one stars a fresh face Bruce Willis and again uses a Phil Coillins track to great effect.

The story line is quite straight forward but is executed so well by all the actors and combined with the soundtrack and cinematography, makes it a real classic, not just for Miami Vice but for all short story episodes ever done on film.

I had to keep replaying one of the end sequences when Crockett fires his gun again and again; as the directing (David Soul, Hutch of Starsky and Hutch fame) and editing of the scene was so good. It was perfection done on a frame by frame level that deserves an award on it's own (you will know what I mean when you have seen it)