Rating: PG
Genre:
Mystery
Release Date: 05/23/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD2/DD1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
This was the only directorial effort of
Philip D'Antoni, producer of the
action classic
Bullitt (1968).
Roy Scheider stars as
Buddy Manucci, a New York City Police Department investigator running a task force charged with taking down criminals guilty of offenses that would get them a minimum sentence of seven years in prison upon conviction.
Manucci's best street informant is
Vito Lucia (
Tony Lo Bianco), who double-crosses
Manucci by using the lawman's secret list of Mob loan sharks to kidnap the crooks on the list and hold them for ransom. When the scheme results in the death of
Ansel (
Ken Kercheval), one of
Manucci's men, the tough cop and his team, including
Barilli (
Victor Arnold) and
Mingo (
Jerry Leon), wage war on the city's underworld. As they bend the law in whatever violent shape they see fit in order to track
Lucia down, grisly deaths and a heart-stopping highway car chase along the Hudson River ensue.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
;)
