Hickey & Boggs (1972) on Netflix
PG19721h 51mCrimeDramaThriller
Al Hickey and Frank Boggs are two jaded private investigators hired to find a missing woman. The search pulls them into a case of murder and lies.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.3/101,706 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
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Plot summary
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | Al Hickey (Cosby) & Frank Boggs (Culp) are two jaded private investigators who get hired to find a missing woman and quickly find themselves submerged in a world of murder and untruths.
Cast
- Ta-Ronce Allenas Nyona's Daughter
- Nancy Howardas Apartment Manager's Wife
- Sheila Sullivanas Edith Boggs
- Carmencristina Morenoas Mary Jane
- Jason Culpas Mary Jane's Son
- Ron Henriquezas Quemando: Florist
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hickey & Boggs (1972)
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- Culp and Calley disagreed over the budget, originally $2.2 million, so Calley sold the script to Culp, who tried to raise the money himself; Culp said he raised and lost the budget three times in eight months.
- Bill Cosby agreed to star in the film only if Robert Culp would direct, although Culp had directed just one feature before, a documentary on Operation Breadbasket.
- Walter Hill wrote the script with Jason Robards and Strother Martin in mind, and said it was not intentionally written for a black and a white actor.
- Culp rewrote Walter Hill's script; Hill said the script changed "by about twenty percent - not in terms of characters but the plot."
- Culp estimated he left 50 minutes of the film on the cutting room floor, and said that win, lose or draw, Hickey and Boggs was his version.
- Robert Culp said in 1977 that the film became a cult one: it earned him no money, but campus audiences liked it and it is used in several film courses.
