Taglines: The most dangerous way to solve a murder… Become the victim.
White Sands movie storyline. A suicide found in the desert with 500,000 dollars cash stuffed in a briefcase makes Sheriff Ray Dolezal (Willem Dafoe) curious. What was the dead man up to? Sensing that if he follows the money, he’ll find crime at the end of the trail, Dolezal assumes his identity. He soon discovers the dead man was a paid informant for an FBI agent (Samuel L. Jackson) trailing an arms dealer (Mickey Rourke) who works with an intermediary (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).
Dolezal begins to suspect that he’s being set up to take a big fall when the money is stolen from him and the dead man’s girlfriend (Maura Tierney, in an early role) gets killed after she tells him that her beau had a partner in a scheme to steal the money from the FBI. Will his enemies discover his real identity? Will the FBI agent turn on him? Will he get back the money?
White Sands is a 1992 crime film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. Starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke, the film is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
White Sands (1992)
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh, James Rebhorn, Maura Tierney, Beth Grant, Alexander Nicksay
Screenplay by: Daniel Pyne
Production Design by: John Graysmark
Cinematography by: Peter Menzies Jr.
Film Editing by: Nicholas Beauman
Costume Design by: Deborah Everton
Set Decoration by: Michael Seirton
Art Direction by: Michael Rizzo
Music by: Patrick O’Hearn
MPAA Rating: R for violence, language, and a scene of sensuality.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: April 24, 1992
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