Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
Directed by Gary Sherman
Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, forcing a showdown on the waterfront.
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Leonardo DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, a fading television actor who once starred in his own western series (“Bounty Law,” a combination of “Wanted: Dead or Alive” and a bunch of other cowboy shows), now guest-starring as the bad guy in pretty much every series on television, including real-life shows “The FBI,” “Mannix,” and “Lancer.”
Rick became a major small-screen star in the 1950s on a western series called Bounty Law (clearly modeled on the 1958–1961 series Wanted: Dead or Alive, which launched Steve McQueen’s career) and then tried and mostly failed to make the transition into feature films (he starred in a few forgettable action romps, including one where he wears an eyepatch and decimates a room full of Nazis with a flamethrower).
Lately, Rick's career has been on the wane, causing the star of a once-popular show "Bounty Law" (modeled after Steve McQueen's "Wanted: Dead or Alive") to fall into alcohol-fueled despair.