STONE COLD (1991 FILM)

''This article is for the 1991 film. For the former professional wrestler and actor see Stone Cold Steve Austin.''
'''Stone Cold''' is a 1991 action movie based around a biker gang out to assassinate the governor and free one of their members who is on trial for murder. It's was notable in that it stared 80's football star Brian Bosworth, otherwise known as "The Boz".

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Plot details

Bosworth plays Joe Huff, an Alabama cop with a rough and tumble attitude. Although under suspension for his seemingly deviant police tactics, Huff single-handedly stops a grocery store heist with the back end of a shotgun and a can of beans and all this within the first ten minutes of the movie. Shortly after this episode, Huff is summoned by police chief Agent Cunningham, whom he meets in a vacant underground parking lot. Cunningham proceeds to blackmail Huff into going undercover, threatening Huff with expanding his three week suspension to six months without pay. This undercover operation entails infiltrating "The Brotherhood" - a powerful Mississippi biker gang linked in the murder of government officials as well as dealing drugs with the mafia. Members include Greek, Monkfish, Six Pack, Gut, Tool, Nancy, and other aptly named scumbags. The Brotherhood is run by Chains (Henriksen) and Ice Hensley (Forsythe) as Commander and Sergeant at arms respectively. These guys are the epitome of tough-as-nails white trash, after Ice is killed he is sent out in the style of a Viking funeral. Joe
Huff takes the undercover name John Stone, joins the gang, after beating a powerful pit fighter, something that Gut thought he'd never see, hangs out at biker rallies and strip bars, gets into fights, and sets up a "P2P" sting in order to get deep into The Brotherhood. But the aforementioned criminal activities are merely fundraising efforts by the bikers to finance their master plan: To storm the state capitol of Mississippi with a "borrowed" military helicopter and a bunch of stolen tanks in order to break one of their brothers, Trouble Owens, out of court and crack District Attorney Abernathy Whipperton, AKA "The Whip" who seeks to put Trouble to death.

Trivia

★ It has been stated that Bozworth received the 1992 Worst Actor Razzie for his performance in this film. This is incorrect. According to the official Razzies website, Bosworth was not even nominated in this category. In fact, he was only nominated for "worst new star", but lost to Vanilla Ice (Cool as Ice). Additionally, the year in contention is 1991, NOT 1992.

★ The song playing as Bosworth makes breakfast for his monitor lizard is "Welcome to the Real Life", written and performed by a then relatively unknown Sheryl Crow. This movie is about the only place where one can hear the song.

★ Brian Bosworth was known to party hard in his heyday, and this film set was no exception. It was rumored that he and co-star William Forsythe never went a moment without being coked out of their minds, and the only thing that brought their hard partying antics to an end was the accidental lynching of an on-set extra. Leon Jinkins died on the second to last day of shooting following a coke-fueled game of "Rope 'Em" in which Forsythe noosed the young man, while Bosworth pulled the other end of the rope over the branch of a tall tree. No criminal charges were filed. Fans of this film have never heard this rumor, and it seems wildly unlikely that such events ever occurred.