The Seven-Ups (1973) on Netflix
The Seven-Ups are a plainclothes New York City police squad that bends the rules to put criminals away. Detective Buddy Manucci works his informants to learn who is kidnapping mob figures.
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Plot summary
Senior officers keep pressing Buddy Manucci about the Seven-Ups, his plainclothes New York City unit, because it uses unorthodox methods to put criminals behind bars. His information comes from Vito Lucia, a childhood friend and regular informant. Across the city, organized crime figures are being abducted by men posing as police detectives. Max Kalish, a racketeer and loan shark, is taken from his house, and a ransom is paid for him at a car wash. A barber in Buddy's old neighborhood tells him guns have become more common on the streets. Buddy and his squad begin following key crime figures, and two men who claim to work for the District Attorney's office seize the bail bondsman Festa in public.
Cast
- Larry Hainesas Max Kalish
- Lou Polanas Carmine Coltello
- Robert Burras Lt. Hanes
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Seven-Ups (1973)
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- The end of the car chase, in which Roy Scheider's car smashes into the back of a parked tractor-trailer and shears off most of its roof, was Bill Hickman's homage to the accidental death of Jayne Mansfield; the car was driven by stunt man Summers. Hickman had witnessed the crash that killed James Dean.
- The script was based on the real-life exploits of Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan: while they were making The French Connection, Grosso told producer Phil D'Antoni the story of mobsters kidnapped by cops who weren't really cops, a 1950s group assigned only felonies carrying penalties of seven years or more.
- The chase borrowed heavily from Bullitt, with Bill Hickman's 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville sedan pursued by Roy Scheider's 1973 Pontiac Ventura coupe; Scheider did some of his own driving, but most of it was done by Hollywood stunt man Jerry Summers.
- The funeral-home sequence, in which Ansel is abducted, was filmed at the side entrance to Lucia Brothers Funeral Home on the corner of E. 184th and Hoffman Streets; the elevated IRT Third Avenue Line visible in the background was dismantled shortly after the movie was filmed.
- The Seven-Ups was the only film Philip D'Antoni directed; he had earlier produced Bullitt and The French Connection, which won him the 1971 Academy Award for Best Picture.
