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Night Watch (1995 film)

Night Watch (1995 film)

Overview
Night Watch is a 1995
1995 in film
The year 1995 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg....

 spy film
Spy film
The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy. Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, although in many cases the overall tone is changed....

 directed by David Jackson made for TV starring Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Irish and American citizenship. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

 and Alexandra Paul
Alexandra Paul
Alexandra Elizabeth Paul is an American actress. She is probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series Baywatch from 1992–97. She has starred in over 60 movies and television programs....

. The film also known as Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean
Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both having been made into successful films...

's Nightwatch was shot in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...

.

It is a sequel to the earlier Brosnan vehicle Death Train
Death Train
Death Train, also known as Detonator, is a 1993 made for TV movie, one of Pierce Brosnan's earlier films. It also stars Christopher Lee, Patrick Stewart, Ted Levine and Alexandra Paul...

.

UN agents Mike Graham (Brosnan) and Sabrina Carver (Alexandra Paul) are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history...

's painting, The Night Watch
Night Watch (painting)
Night Watch or The Night Watch is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch...

. The trail takes them from Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...

 initially to Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...

 and involves them in not only art theft and forgery, but in the more serious high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder and his bald North Korean cohort Mao Yixin.


  • Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Irish and American citizenship. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

     ...
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Encyclopedia
Night Watch is a 1995
1995 in film
The year 1995 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg....

 spy film
Spy film
The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy. Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, although in many cases the overall tone is changed....

 directed by David Jackson made for TV starring Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Irish and American citizenship. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

 and Alexandra Paul
Alexandra Paul
Alexandra Elizabeth Paul is an American actress. She is probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series Baywatch from 1992–97. She has starred in over 60 movies and television programs....

. The film also known as Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean
Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote successful thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both having been made into successful films...

's Nightwatch was shot in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...

.

It is a sequel to the earlier Brosnan vehicle Death Train
Death Train
Death Train, also known as Detonator, is a 1993 made for TV movie, one of Pierce Brosnan's earlier films. It also stars Christopher Lee, Patrick Stewart, Ted Levine and Alexandra Paul...

.

Plot


UN agents Mike Graham (Brosnan) and Sabrina Carver (Alexandra Paul) are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history...

's painting, The Night Watch
Night Watch (painting)
Night Watch or The Night Watch is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch...

. The trail takes them from Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country...

 initially to Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...

 and involves them in not only art theft and forgery, but in the more serious high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder and his bald North Korean cohort Mao Yixin.


Cast

  • Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Irish and American citizenship. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...

     ... Michael 'Mike' Graham
  • Alexandra Paul
    Alexandra Paul
    Alexandra Elizabeth Paul is an American actress. She is probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series Baywatch from 1992–97. She has starred in over 60 movies and television programs....

     ... Sabrina Carver
  • William Devane
    William Devane
    William Devane is an American film and television actor.-Life and career:He was born in Albany, New York, the son of Joseph Devane, who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's chauffeur when he was Governor of New York...

     ... Nick Caldwell
  • Michael Shannon
    Michael Shannon (actor)
    Michael Corbett Shannon is an American stage and film actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Revolutionary Road.-Life and career:...

     ... Martin Schraeder (as Michael J. Shannon)
  • Lim Kay Siu
    Lim Kay Siu
    Kay Siu Lim or Lim Kay Siu is a Singaporean character actor who has appeared in several Asian films, notably TV films since the 1980s. His bald head and sinister demeanour in film and TV has made him an ideal villain...

     ... Mao Yixin (as Lim Kay Siu)
  • Irene Ng ... Myra Tang
  • Hidde Maas ... Miles Van Dehn
  • Tom Jansen ... Insp. De Jongh
  • Tomaslav Ralis ... Louis Armand
  • Harold Bone ... Lemmer
  • Rolf Saxon
    Rolf Saxon
    Rolf Saxon , is an American actor living in London.Saxon was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England where he was awarded the Gold Medal on his graduation, and also studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco,...

     ... Fisk
  • Natalie Roles
    Natalie Roles
    Natalie Roles is an English actress best known for her role of DS Debbie McAllister in the ITV drama The Bill.She started her TV career as a dancer in 1987 on It Couldn't Happen Here...

     ... Jennifer
  • Kate Harper ... Psychologist
  • Mark King ... Luke Sheehan
  • Terry Diab ... U.N.A.C.O. Voice (voice)
  • Ron Berglas ... Roger Flint
  • Suncana Zelenika ... Stephanie
  • Ron Li-Paz ... New York Broker *Jasna Bilusic ... Amsterdam G.N.N. Reporter
  • Swee Lin Neo ... Croupier (as Swee-Lin)
  • Goran Višnjić
    Goran Višnjic
    Goran Visnjic is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American films and television productions. He is best known for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač in the hit television series ER...

     ... UN security officer
  • Rex Wei ... Korean Ship Captain
  • Adrian Pang
    Adrian Pang
    Adrian Pang is a Singaporean Chinese actor who trained at the ARTTS International in Bubwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Born in Malacca, Malaysia, he was educated at Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, and in the United Kingdom. Although he studied law at Keele University, he has not...

     ... Korean Technician
  • Ed Miller
    Ed Miller
    Edward Raymond Miller is a professional poker player and an author of books about poker. He wrote Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play with David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth in 2004. In 2005, he completed Getting Started in Hold 'em, a beginner's book. In 2006, he co-wrote No Limit...

     ... Hong Kong C.I.A. Technician

DVD Release


Detonator II : Night Watch is available on Region 1 DVD bundled as a double pack with Detonator, the DVD's ASIN
Asín
Asín is a municipality located in the Cinco Villas comarca of the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, located a few km west of Orés. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 106 inhabitants....

is B000HXDWFK.