In the year 1991, contestants don't play for prizes...they play for their lives!
Chuck Toedan hosts the most controversial show on TV: Live or Die, where deathrow inmates compete against each other for a chance to beat the executioner. However, when he accidentally kills a mob boss of the most feared mafia in the city, a hit man tries to put an end to him and his show once and for all. As a battle of wits and survival ensues, Chuck is forced to engage in the very tactics he uses on his contestants, or die trying.
Directed byMark Pirro
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- December 4, 1987
- Budget
- $200,000
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Cast & crew
John McCafferty
Chuck Toedan
Robyn Blythe
Gloria Sternvirgin
Beano
Luigi Pappalardo
Mark Lasky
Mama Pappalardo / Spumoni
Darwyn Carson
Trudy
Kent Butler
Stage Manager
Paul Farbman
Dinko
Bill Whitehead
Don Stuart
Esther Elise
Groupie
Zachary Harris
Featured Convict
- Directed by
- Mark Pirro
- Written by
- Mark Pirro
- Produced by
- Brian J. Smith
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