Dead Man's Wire

IMDb link: 15181326
IMDb rating: 6.5 (6,955 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Biography, History
Director: Al Pacino, Gus Van Sant, Colman Domingo
Cast: Dacre Montgomery, Bill Skarsgard and others

Release date: 16 Jan 2026
Release year: 2026
Runtime: 104 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: period drama, dead man's switch, dark comedy, docudrama drama, true crime, sawed off shotgun, three word title, on air, radio, listening to radio

Plot:

On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.

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