car then goes through the window and flies into the unoccupied building. Just as they think they are safe and Quint gets the disk out from the bumper, Ringer shows up to retrieve it. He and Quint start fighting just as Johnson shows up. After a brutal fistfight, Quint knocks out Ringer and takes back the disk and gives it to Johnson, allowing himself to retire. Windom then shows up and is grateful his car is still in one piece, but wonders how they will get it down. The movie ends back at Nina's apartment, where Quint asks her if she is happy she stole the Black Moon. After she says yes, he says that he is too. Cast Tommy Lee Jones as Sam Quint Linda Hamilton as Nina Robert Vaughn as Ed Ryland Richard Jaeckel as Earl Windom Bubba Smith as FBI Agent Johnson Dan Shor as Billy Lyons Keenan Wynn as John "Iron John" Lee Ving as Marvin Ringer William Sanderson as Tyke Thayden Nick Cassavetes as Luis Don Keith Opper as Emile French Townsend Coleman as the Waiter Production John Carpenter wrote the script around the time he made Escape from New York. "It was my 'my car is stolen and I'm going to get it back' story," he said. "I have never seen the final film." Car The Black Moon was based on the 1980 Wingho Concordia II designed by Bernard Beaujardins and Clyde Kwok, made by Wingho Auto Classique in Montreal. Only one of these had been built, so in the movie, a copy of the car cast from a mold was used for stunts, as well as a third replica of the interior only. Reception Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote in his review: "At the start of Black Moon Rising, a new, semi-caper movie, the FBI hires a freelance thief named Quint to break into the accounting department of a private company to obtain records needed in a grand jury investigation. However, Black Moon Rising is not about the F.B.I. and dirty tricks. It's about Quint's attempts to retrieve the records he has stolen after he has hidden them in the trunk of the prototype of a fancy new car, the Black Moon, which itself is then stolen. Thievery as a way of life is what Black Moon Rising is all about. It's the kind of movie in which thieves are