Hickey & Boggs (1972)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Robert Culp

Writer:

Walter Hill (writer)

Release Date:

4 October 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

They hold their forty-four magnums with two hands and keep firing until they hit something ... anything.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Neo Noir | Drugs | Private Detective | Murder | Character Name In Title

Cast

Bill Cosby	...	Al Hickey
Robert Culp	...	Frank Boggs
Ta-Ronce Allen	...	Nyona's Daughter
Rosalind Cash	...	Nyona
Lou Frizzell	...	Lawyer
Nancy Howard	...	Apartment Manager's Wife
Bernard Nedell	...	Used Car Salesman
Isabel Sanford	...	Nyona's Mother
Sheila Sullivan	...	Edith Boggs
Carmencristina Moreno	...	Mary Jane (as Carmen)
Jason Culp	...	Mary Jane's Son
Ron Henriquez	...	Quemando: Florist
Louis Moreno	...	Quemando: Prisoner
Caryn Sanchez	...	Mary Jane's Daughter
Robert Mandan	...	Mr. Brill

Runtime:

111 min | Germany:107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Dodger Stadium - 1000 Elysian Park Avenue, Chávez Ravine, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Film Guarantors

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the Dodger Stadium scene, the close up shows a Dodger pitcher #20 (Don Sutton) throwing a pitch, but in the following wide shot it's a Dodger batter and New York Met pitcher completing the play.

Quotes:

Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came... nobody cares. It's still not about anything.
Frank Boggs: Yeah, you told me.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Soundtrack:

Hickey & Boggs

SCREENING at the AERO in Santa Monica ROBERT CULP in person Feb 18th 2007

One of the greatest films ever made......

"Nobody came. nobody cares. It's still not about anything."

As dark and brilliant as it gets.... ahead of it's time even BEFORE it was ahead of its time. Maybe we'll all catch up in another 20 years.

If Culp had "just let up" it might have made more money and got better reviews.... it might have lead to other directing jobs...... be he DIDN'T let up..... and we have this masterpiece to thank for it....

Cosby gives the performance of a lifetime, Culp does the same on both sides of the camera…

Watch the first few minutes and where Quentin got the opening of Jackie Brown.

I wish he'd had another chance directing….. but this film is so good…… so perfect…. It's almost fitting.....What more is there to say anyways..

If you want to see this film the way it was meant to be seen, on the big screen with amazing sound, Robert Culp in going to present it person at the AERO THEATER in Santa Monica, CA February 18th 2007 at 7:30pm with a Q&A talk afterwords……… it'll be a beautiful print of Hickey & Boggs and then a Q&A with Culp... which will be followed by Walter Hills 48 hours....