Lara Flynn Boyle as Sarah Ackerman Pepe Serna as Lieutenant Raymond Garcia Donna Mitchell as Laura Ackerman Coleby Lombardo as Joey Ackerman Marco Rodriguez as "Loco" Martinez Xander Berkeley as Ken Blackwell Roberta Vasquez as Officer Heather Torres Hal Williams as Detective Powell Paul Ben-Victor as Felix "Little Felix" Tony Plana as Morales David Sherrill as Max Pete Randall as Cruz Matt McKenzie as Detective Wang Joel Polis as Detective Lance Robert Harvey as Detective Whalen George Orrison as Detective Orrison Paul Butler as Captain Hargate Anthony Charnota as Romano Nick Ballo as Vito Jay Boryea as Sal Anthony Alexander as Alphonse Jeanne Mori as Reporter Connie Ling Jordan Lund as The Bartender Kyle Eastwood as Band Member At Ackerman's House Party (uncredited) Production Sets and equipment Within California, filming was done primarily on location in Saratoga, San Jose and Los Angeles. Various filming sites included Interstate 680 and State Route 87 in San Jose for the opening chase sequence featuring the semi-tractor trailer, the famous Villa Montalvo mansion for the henchmen meeting scene in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Saratoga, and the San Jose International Airport as well as the Mojave Air & Space Port for the final action climax scene, which author Laurence F. Knapp described as "both purgative and objectionable—a vivid, personal exchange of camera angles and vantage points that complicate, rather than conclude." A furniture warehouse on the corner of 4th and Hewitt streets in downtown Los Angeles, stood in as the hideaway for Strom's illegal theft operation. But in relation to same hideaway's demise later in the film, a different building was used in the City of Commerce. A warehouse previously occupied by an auto agency slated for demolition on Flower near 12th Street, stood in for the impending explosion-filled destruction. During an introductory scene, where Eastwood's character pulls up in an unmarked squad car to foil the plans of the car thieves, a z-shaped thoroughfare called Santa Fe Street, provided the perfect secluded background at night which also happened to overlook the Los Angeles skyline. For the action sequences involving aircraft at the San Jose airport, a Hansa twin-engine jet was used to collide with a Convair 880 that was briefly disguised as a 150-passenger Evergreen International Airlines Boeing 727. In keeping with the continuity of the subject matter and storyline, the filming was punctuated with the use—and in some cases the destruction—of expensive