''All-American Murder'' is a 1991 American

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directed by Anson Williams and starring Christopher Walken and

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. It was released on December 18, 1991, in UK.

Premise

Artie Logan (Schlatter) is the new guy on campus. Suddenly, he meets Tally Fuller: the most popular and beautiful girl at Fairfield college and she finally agrees to go on a date with him. But that night she is brutally killed by a blowtorch-wielding maniac and Artie is wrongfully arrested. Despite protests from other police officers, detective P.J. Decker (Walken) believes Artie's story and gives him 24 hours to track down the real killer. But, as Artie gets closer to the killer, each suspect is murdered and all the clues point to him.

Cast

* Christopher Walken as P.J. Decker *

as Artie Logan *

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as Tally Fuller *

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as Erica Darby *

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as Lou Alonzo * Woody Watson as Frank Harley * Mitchell Anderson as Doug Sawyer

Production

The town in the film is Sand Springs, Oklahoma. The campus in the film is Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater. The football scenes, the stadium and the shower scene were all filmed at Union High School's Tuttle Stadium in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in May 1991.

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