
Rating: 7 stars
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Seen on: 08/20/2011
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In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
Rated R | Length 102 minutes
Frank Adu | Burt Young | Yaphet Kotto | Anthony Quinn | Gloria Hendry | Dick Crockett | Paul Benjamin | Richard Ward | Norma Donaldson | Norman Matlock | Antonio Fargas | Gerry Black | Robert Sacchi | Anthony Franciosa | Paul Harris | Gilbert Lewis | Marlene Warfield | Tim O'Connor | Anthony C. Cannon | Charles McGregor | Arnold Williams | Anthony Charnota | Ed Bernard | Norman Bush | Keith Davis | Nat Polen | Joseph Attles | Frank Arno | Tina Beyer | Samual Blue Jr. | Maria Carey
I’ve been reading a great book (The Savage City, by T. J. English) about the racial tensions in New York City during the early sixties to early seventies, and this movie draws on that, although it’s a bit melodramatic to be a serious study on the topic.
Anthony Quinn’s performance in particular is a little over the top.
Still, it’s a pretty decent movie; a cross between a gritty NYC police drama and a blaxploitation movie. It does give a glimpse of the squalor of NYC’s black ghettos and the rampant racism running through the NYPD, as well as the tension between the city’s poor black population and the police force.
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