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The Owl

The Owl

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 3, 1991

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Action, TV Movie

User Score

45%

Original Title

The Owl

Production Companies

CBS

Director

Alan Smithee

Description

After the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need. ["The Owl" originally aired on CBS as a 48-minute pilot for a series that was not picked up. It was later expanded to an 84-minute telefilm for international markets by incorporating deleted scenes and lengthy montage sequences. Director Tom Holland had his name removed from the longer version.]