Welcome back to my blog. Here’s my recommendation of a movie to check out today and hope you punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” OK, we’re headed back into the genre of crime in cinema with the under-appreciated crime drama “The Seven-Ups” from 1973 starring Roy Scheider. I write “under-appreciated” because it has a sensational car chase equal to the iconic and classic chases in both “Bullitt” with Steve McQueen and “The French Connection” with Gene Hackman and Scheider.
The same main stunt players were responsible for all the chase scenes in that trio of films and I’d have to say that “The Seven-Ups” edges out the other two for a variety of production values.
“The Seven-Ups” is the story of a special group of detectives in New York City that focus on major crimes where, with a conviction, the bad guys get seven years or more in prison. Scheider is their leader and a case of kidnapped mobsters becomes the major force in his life, especially when one of the detectives is killed after the mob finds him infiltrating one of members’ funerals.
The supporting cast of “The Seven-Ups” isn’t much to write home about, but it is efficient work from Tony Lo Bianco, Ken Kersheval and the two baddest of the bad guys: Richard Lynch and Bill Hickman. Hickman was also a stunt driver in all three movies I mentioned previously.
“The Seven-Ups” sometimes appears more a tee-vee flick than a motion picture from 1973, but chalk that up to the era before computerized special effects and artificial intelligence changed the game in realism defined by technology than just having cars crash into each other.
So, I say punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” and watch “The Seven-Ups.” It is mostly available for rent on a variety of streaming services. You’ll thank me later when you watch “The Seven-Ups” today!
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