''Straight Shooter'' is a 1999 German film directed by Thomas Bohn and starring Dennis Hopper,

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, and Errol A. C. Trotman Harewood. It is about an ex-member of the

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who makes the German

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responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the service of a

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. The

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are helpless and so the ex-instructor ( Dennis Hopper) of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down.

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