Hurricane Smith (1992 film)

Hurricane Smith (also known as Dead on Delivery) is a 1992 Australian action film directed by Colin Budds and starring Carl Weathers as an American oil field worker named Billy 'Hurricane' Smith who travels to Australia on a quest to rescue his sister, where he gets mixed up with drug smugglers. It was filmed on the Gold Coast in Queensland.^[2]

Hurricane Smith
Theatrical film poster
Directed by	Colin Budds
Written by	Peter A. Kinloch Kevin James Dobson
Produced by	Daniel O'Toole Stanley O'Toole
Starring	Carl Weathers Jürgen Prochnow Cassandra Delaney Tony Bonner
Cinematography	John Stokes
Edited by	Pippa Anderson
Music by	Brian May
Production company	Village Roadshow Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	31 January 1992 (1992-01-31) (U.S.) 9 April 1992 (1992-04-09) (Australia)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A$5 million[1]
Box office	A$89,467 (Australia)

Plot

Billy "Hurricane" Smith (Carl Weathers) is a construction worker in Marshall, Texas. Mourning his mother's death, Billy goes to Australia to find his missing sister. His search leads him to a pimp, Shanks (David Argue), and one of his hookers, Julie (Cassandra Delaney), who both knew Billy's sister.

Billy is tortured by his sister's former employer, crime boss Charlie Dowd (Jurgen Prochnow), who's secretly waging a turf war against his partner Howard Fenton (Tony Bonner), and Billy is not about to leave town without finding his sister -- and then Billy discovers that his sister was murdered by Charlie.

Not only does Shanks endure a savage beating to help Billy, but Shanks is also killed when they storm Charlie's mansion in search of the now-kidnapped Julie.

Ever busy Charlie has already blown up Howard in an explosion which almost killed Billy, and has murdered his own girlfriend just to eliminate loose ends. With the SWAT team called in, Charlie uses Julie as a shield after his men are wiped out.

Charlie commandeers a chopper. Climbing onto the bottom of the chopper, which flies over a part of the ocean, Billy throws Charlie into the water below, where Charlie is killed by a swarm of sharks -- the same way Charlie killed Billy's sister.

Billy is now free to make plans to bring Julie stateside, where they won't run into any of her former customers.

Cast

• Carl Weathers as Billy "Hurricane" Smith
• Jürgen Prochnow as Charlie Dowd
• Cassandra Delaney as Julie
• Tony Bonner as Howard Fenton
• David Argue as Shanks
• John Ewart as David Griffiths
• Louise McDonald as Annabel
• Suzie MacKenzie as Rochelle
• Karen Hall as Francie
• Johnny Raaen as Arkie Davis

Production

The film was shot in May 1990.

Box office

Hurricane Smith grossed $89,467 at the box office in Australia.^[3]

See also

• Cinema of Australia