the finest
1 seven ups
2 report to the commisioner
3 across 110th street
4 taking of pelham one two three{my personal favorite}
5 laughing policeman
6 jive turkey{yep, believe it or not. this one is cheap but good}
7 French Connection
No Chinatown?
shareI don't see how you can overlook Detroit 9000 (a motor city mirror of Across 110th St.) and the first 2 Shaft movies (although they're not as gritty as one would like).
Another, not great, is the Organization. Man, I could live on these!
oh boy so many to choose.
the outfit
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(add across 110th street and you have a "stealing from the mob triple feature")!
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1)THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123(the "die hard" of the 70's)
2)ACROSS 110TH STREET (a great, gritty, tough, street film)
3)DIRTY HARRY (I tried to stay away from obvious classics, but this is brilliant 70's crime cinema!)
4)THE DRIVER (a true hidden treasure. excellent walter hill crime film)
5)THE SEVEN-UPS (tough, gritty, and kick ass 70's crime classic!)
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Great stuff! They sure can't match those movies with the junk that studios crank out today. I would add The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Crazy Joe, The Anderson Tapes, The Stone Killer, Magnum Force, and McQ. We can also give honorable mention to Brannigan, Blazing Magnum, and Busting.
shareI just thought of a few more great films to add, Gordon's War, Badge 373, Newman's Law, and The Mechanic.
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The 7-Up's
The French Connection
Dirty Harry & Magnum Force
*(obviously The 1st 2 Godfather movies)
Dillinger
Chinatown
Mean Streets
French Connection II
The Hot Rock
The Getaway
The Sting
The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get!
Man, what a great thread. It's helping me out through my biannual deepdiscountdvd 20% off binge.
A couple more:
From Alain Silver's Film Noir (older edition):
The Split
Hickey & Boggs
The Nickel Ride
The Kremlin Letter
A couple I own:
Night Moves
Hustle
Madigan
I would add:
Some of the less sureal Blaxplotation films such as Bucktown
A couple I've only read about: SuperCops and the Big Fix
A personal fave, a little more subdued: Klute
I hope the third or so of the films listed here that aren't out make it to DVD in some decent form. A year or two I wouldn't have thought so, but after stuff like Warning Shot, it's looking better.
Taking chances now on Shamus, The Big Bounce (original) and Brannigan (even after McQ :) ).
I like the riffin' on Donald Westlake, on location, Quinn Martin level production values, free love fading, post watergate, non-PC to the extreme on all sides which makes it fresh, and grooving soundtracks!
Sidney Portier made a great movie called "The Organization" in San Francisco
shareI'm a fan of all that stuff! Cannon/Kojak/Mitchell all that-pretty good. You have the boats for cars/big side burns/shot on site/bad grimy look to the film/bad plaid business suits/Charles Bronson Sideburns/Car chases. All pretty good. Charley Varrick is a good one.
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Lest we forget DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY.....The DVD has some great special features!
shareThe French Connection
"Straight Time"
"The Silent Partner"
"The Driver"
Look nonchalant and keep on smiling.
Great thread!
Charley Varrick
The Outfit (Where's the dvd?!)
French Connection (both of them)
Mr Majestic
Walking Tall
Point Blank
Taking of Pelham 123
The Warriors
Death Wish
The French Connection
French Connection II
Charley Varrick
The Laughing Policeman
Dirty Harry
Magnum Force
Death Wish
Taxi Driver
Assault On Precinct 13
Vigilante Force
Trick Baby!
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share...trying not to repeat earlier posts...
The Hot Rock
Busting
Mr Majestik
Death Wish
Brinks Job
The Getaway
"This is my BOOMSTICK!!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/user/bills1218
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123
THE GETAWAY
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
CHARLEY VARRICK
FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (pretty much forgotten, but one of Mitchum's best roles)
ACROSS 110TH STREET
DIRTY HARRY/MAGNUM FORCE/THE ENFORCER (I consider this trilogy to be "as one.")
THE LONG GOODBYE
DEATH WISH
anyone remember the tv series', Vega$ with Bob Ulrich, or Petrocelli?
shareFurther viewing, taking a little liberty with the decade/dates, but in keeping with the genre (thanks go to JDCantwell):
The Onion Field ('79)
Cruising ('80)
The New Centurions ('72)
Fort Apache, The Bronx ('81)
Electra Glide in Blue ('74)
Fighting Back ('82)
The Yakuza ('75)
Hardcore ('79)
Mikey & Nicky ('76)
They're not American, but I always thought Kinji Fukasaku's ("Battle Royale") gritty Yakuza flicks were the absolute best neo-realist crime flicks to come out of the 70s. If you can get your hands on them, I'd recommend:
- The Yakuza Papers (all five movies)
- Yakuza Graveyard (my personal favorite)
- Street Mobster
- Cops vs. Thugs
- Graveyard of Honor
- Sympathy for the Underdog (to a lesser extent)
Has anyone mentioned the Outside Man? with Roy Scheider and beautiful Angie Dickinson shot in L.A... very cool movie!
You never know whatcha gonna gettt!!
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Nevertheless, Prince of the City feels like the last of the 1970s-style cop movies.
shareFantastic suggestions.
I'm going to check out plenty of these.