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The Seven-Ups -
A very solid police thriller from the crew and featuring some of the cast of The French Connection. A tale involving a mob kidnapping and ransom scheme and its pursuing Strike Team-like detective squad, it has clandestine meetings with informants, shakedowns, gunfights, a dynamite car chase and pretty much everything else that make '70s police thrillers so reliably entertaining and they're all done very well. Speaking of reliable, Roy Scheider is at his world-weary best as the lead detective and Richard Lynch is downright scary as the most vicious of his targets. Not to mention, the depiction of New York City from the avenues of Manhattan to its most unkempt docks is beautiful. The movie is not the game changer that The French Connection is, but it's still an ideal choice if you're in the mood for a movie like this one.
Unfortunately, it's not on VOD, so keep an eye out for it on TCM or on used DVD racks.
A very solid police thriller from the crew and featuring some of the cast of The French Connection. A tale involving a mob kidnapping and ransom scheme and its pursuing Strike Team-like detective squad, it has clandestine meetings with informants, shakedowns, gunfights, a dynamite car chase and pretty much everything else that make '70s police thrillers so reliably entertaining and they're all done very well. Speaking of reliable, Roy Scheider is at his world-weary best as the lead detective and Richard Lynch is downright scary as the most vicious of his targets. Not to mention, the depiction of New York City from the avenues of Manhattan to its most unkempt docks is beautiful. The movie is not the game changer that The French Connection is, but it's still an ideal choice if you're in the mood for a movie like this one.
Unfortunately, it's not on VOD, so keep an eye out for it on TCM or on used DVD racks.