Year: 1988
Runtime: 96 mins
Language: English
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
After being poisoned, English professor Dexter Cornell discovers he has only 24 hours before he dies. Determined to uncover who poisoned him and why, he races against time as a series of murders erupts among people in his circle. With the reluctant aid of his student Sydney Fuller, he pursues the killer before he becomes dead on arrival.
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