The Seven-Ups
Director: Philip D'Antoni
Genre: Crime Fiction, Thriller, Action, Action/Adventure, Crime Thriller, Mystery, Detective, Detective fiction
Year: 1973
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Roy Scheider, Larry Haines, Richard Lynch, Ken Kercheval, Joe Spinell, David Wilson, Jerry Leon, Rex Everhart
The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American film released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Roy Scheider as a renegade policeman who is the leader of The Seven-Ups, a police team who uses dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry on charges leading to prison sentences of seven years or more upon prosecution, hence the name of the team. The film was produced by Philip D'Antoni, who also took on his sole-directing credit as director of this film: in addition, he was responsible for producing other gritty cop films as Bullitt and The French Connection. Several people who worked on The French Connection were also involved in this film, such as Scheider, screenwriter and police technical advisor Sonny Grosso, and composer Don Ellis.
Buddy Manucci (played by Scheider, a loose remake of the character of Buddy "Cloudy" Russo he played in The French Connection, a character who also used dirty tactics to capture his enemies, and who was also based on Sonny Grosso) has been getting flak from the higher-ups in the New York City police force he works for because his team of renegade policemen, known as The Seven-Ups (the name comes from the fact that most convictions done by the team heralds jail
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