Directed by:
Philip D'AntoniCinematography:
Urs FurrerComposer:
Don EllisCast:
Roy Scheider, Ken Kercheval, Tony Lo Bianco, Richard Lynch, Bill Hickman, Joe Spinell, Larry Haines, Rex Everhart, Benny Marino, Victor Arnold, John Aprea (more)Plots(1)
The Seven-Ups of the title are a hot-dogging special unit of the New York Police Department led by Roy Scheider, who applies unconventional techniques to crack tough cases. When a series of mob kidnappings lead to a squad member’s death, the case personal and the Seven-Ups get even! (Bounty Films)
Reviews (1)
A now almost forgotten but really excellent old school police thriller. Roy Scheider was still going from film to film as a a-list star, with a face not yet disfigured by plastic surgery. The story is straightforward and dark, in the tradition of the best parts of Dirty Harry, and there’s also a car chase that equals or even surpasses in intensity the legendary ones in Bullitt or The French Connection. Some scenes are staged so originally (the car wash robbery, the interrogation in the hospital) that I have never seen anything like it in any other film. And that is appreciated.
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