Velocity Trap
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Velocity Trap | |
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Written by | Phillip J. Roth |
Directed by | Phillip J. Roth |
Starring | Olivier Gruner Alicia Coppola Ken Olandt |
Composers | Jim Goodwin Richard McHugh Mike Slamer |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Ken Olandt Phillip J. Roth |
Cinematography | |
Editor | |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Distributor |
Velocity Trap is a 1999 television film directed by Phillip J. Roth and starring Olivier Gruner, Alicia Coppola, and Ken Olandt.
Plot[]
The main character, Ray Stokes (Olivier Gruner) is a down-on-his luck police officer on a distant, corruptly-ruled mining colony. He has already lost his wife Dana () to his corrupt boss, John Dawson (Craig Wasson), not from any failure in romantic rivalry, but as part of a deal to pay off their dead daughter's medical bills: making her Dawson's "Contract Wife".
Samuel Nelson (), an Enforcement Division chief of security, is sent to clean up the Colony's local Enforcement Division, but is killed in the course of his investigation. Stokes is framed for the murder of another ED officer, also killed by Nelson's assassin. However, Dawson is implicated in Nelson's death and wants to avoid any inquiry. He sends Stokes on a six-month trip to Earth, protecting a cargo of cash. Meanwhile, the crew of The Endeavour has planned to intercept the money ship while the crew are in hibernation. The interception occurs, Stokes and Beth Sheffield (Alicia Coppola), the attractive female navigator, are the only survivors of the ensuing gun play; they steal the money and buy the mining colony. The evil boss is arrested, and presumably they all live happily ever after.
External links[]
- 1999 films
- 1990s science fiction films
- American space adventure films
- American films
- American science fiction television films
- 1990s English-language films
- 1990s science fiction film stubs