Raw Deal is 1986 action film directed by John Irvin and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is the story of an elderly and embittered high-ranking FBI agent who wants to get revenge against a Mafia organization, and sends a former FBI agent played by Schwarzenegger to destroy the organization from the inside. On December 16, 1985, in a remote wooded cabin a mob informant with information on Luigi Patrovita, the strongest of the Chicago Mafia Dons, is being protected by FBI bodyguards. They are ambushed by a hit squad armed with automatic weapons who brutally slaughter the bodyguards and the... witness. One of the agents killed while protecting the informant was Blair Shannon, son of FBI Chief Harry Shannon , who vows revenge. Small-town sheriff Mark Kaminsky goes home to his wife who is angry at what their lives have been reduced to and in a drunken fit, throws a cake at Mark. Kaminsky once worked for the FBI, but five years ago he brutally beat a suspect who molested, murdered, and mutilated a young girl.
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| Release date: | June 6, 1986 |
| Directed by: | John Irvin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Producer: | Martha De Laurentiis |
| Editor: | Anne V. Coates |
| Music by: | Chris Boardman |
| Cinematography: | Alex Thomson |
| Screenplay by: | Norman Wexler, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Donati |
| Estimated budget: | $8,500,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |