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"The Seven-Ups" Retrospective Review Trailer - I always enjoyed this gritty 70's thriller. Hope you enjoy this look back!
"The Seven-Ups was a spin-off sequel by the producer of The French Connection and Bullitt (with Steve McQueen). It features an amazing car chase and Roy Scheider in a terrific role prior to his 1975 hit "Jaws."
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"The Seven-Ups"
Directed and Produced by
Philip D'Antoni
Screenplay by
Albert Ruben
Alexander Jacobs
Story by
Sonny Grosso
Starring
Roy Scheider
Tony Lo Bianco
Larry Haines
Richard Lynch
Ken Kercheval
Music by
Don Ellis
Cinematography
Urs Furrer
Edited by
Gerald B. Greenberg
Stephen A. Rotter
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
December 14, 1973
Running time
103 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2,425,000[1]
Box office
$6,007,464 (US Box Office/$4.1 million (US/Canada rentals)[2]
The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American crime drama thriller film produced and directed by Philip D'Antoni. It stars Roy Scheider as a crusading policeman who is the leader of The Seven-Ups, a squad of plainclothes officers who use 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.[3]
D'Antoni took his sole directing credit on this film. He was earlier responsible for producing the gritty cop thriller Bullitt, followed by The French Connection, which won him the 1971 Academy Award for Best Picture. All three feature a memorable car chase sequence.
Several other people who worked on The French Connection were also involved in this film, such as Scheider, screenwriter and police technical advisor Sonny Grosso, composer Don Ellis, and stunt coordinator Bill Hickman. 20th Century Fox was again the distributor.
Buddy Manucci, played by Scheider, is 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.
NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci 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 herald jail sentences to criminals from Seven years and Up) has been using unorthodox methods to capture criminals; this is illustrated as the team ransacks an antiques store that is a front for the running of counterfeit money.
Also, there have been a rash of kidnappings; the twist is that it seems that only upper echelon criminals (Mafioso and white-collar types) are the ones being kidnapped, illustrated when Max Kalish is kidnapped and a ransom is paid at a car wash. This leads to many plot twists in which Manucci tries to figure out the puzzle, with help supplied to him by an informant (Tony Lo Bianco), who turns out to be untrustworthy, leading to the death of one of the Seven-Up officers.
Manucci figures out the puzzle, but not before The Seven-Ups splinter from the fallout, and Manucci's life is placed in jeopardy.
Cast[edit]
Roy Scheider as Buddy
Tony Lo Bianco as Vito Lucia
Larry Haines as Max Kalish
Richard Lynch as Moon
Bill Hickman as Bo
Victor Arnold as Barilli
Ken Kercheval as Ansel
Lou Polan as Carmine Coltello
Joe Spinell as Toredano
The film was announced in July 1971.[4] Canadian TV writer Philip Hersch was hired by producer Phil d'Antoni to write the script based on the real life exploits of Sonny Grosso and Eddie Egan. While making The French Connection, Grosso told d'Antoni the story of "the kidnapping of cops who weren't really cops," said the producer. "A very weird and fascinating story." [3] It was about a group of police who existed in the 1950s who were only assigned felonies where the penalties were seven years and up.
The French Connection was a big box office success and 20th Century Fox agreed to let D'Antoni direct. "We kind of agreed the best one to direct this would be me," he said.[5][6]
Filming locations include Manhattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Westchester County, and the Bronx.
