The Rose and the Jackal (MOD)

The Rose and the Jackal (MOD)In February 1861, America is about to be torn apart by the Civil War. The North, under President Lincoln, forms a Secret Service headed by Allen Pinkerton (Christopher Reeve), whose first target is the Southern society belle Rose Greenhow (Madolyn Smith Osborne). But no one believes this refined young lady is a spy, and Pinkerton's warnings are ignored until too late. One senator's indiscretion in leaking military secrets to Rose results in the

They want the first American fatality of D-Day to be a sailor

suspense-filled action film

who's a prostitute and grandfather who's an alcoholic until the day she goes to the park to string beads for extra cash

costarring Frank Morgan

a wisecracking widow (Marjorie Main) teams up with Malone (James Whitmore) when they're framed for his client's murder

Top-billed Kurt Russell (six years before his iconic role as Snake Plissken in Escape from New York) plays the Taos

Davis was delighted to reteam with him the next year in The Working Man

Nicholas Pryor

Derby (Buttons) wonder what to do next

Appointed peace commissioner by President Grant

he is dragged from the flames with his face horribly disfigured and his mind reduced to a child's

A highlight of the 1986 Deauville American Film Festival