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Director:
Writer:
Walter Hill (writer)
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Release Date:
4 October 1972 (USA) more
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Tagline:
They hold their forty-four magnums with two hands and keep firing until they hit something ... anything. more
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

Runtime:
111 min | Germany:107 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: (At 68:00) In the office scene where Boggs keeps drinking, he sets the bottle on the file cabinet with the label facing away and half full, then when he goes to pick it up again the label is facing forwards and the bottle is three/quarter full. more
Quotes:
Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came... nobody cares. It's still not about anything.
Frank Boggs: Yeah, you told me.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
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WOW, 30 July 2004
Author: cabrelli9 from London

A real treat. Cosby is straight as an arrow. Reminds me of Lee Marvin, here. Culp uses very simple but arresting technique in this directorial debut. His style may look limited but it is hard to imagine a film edited and paced in such a style today except maybe Soderberg's THE LIMEY. This is a key film in the PI genre. It should be seen. Very intelligent, very enjoyable and marvelously put together. It has the pitfalls of the era, the 'heavies' are like lumbering monsters and there is probably one chilli dog too many. But these are quibbles. It's a pity Cosby wasn't in more movies like this. And a damn shame that Culp never picked up the camera again. 8/10

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