The Seven-Ups
1973
103 Min
Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) has made a name for himself in the New York City Police Department by heading up a task force that goes after crooks whose crimes demand a minimum sentence of seven years. But when he learns that one of his best informants (Tony Lo Bianco) is betraying him by kidnapping the bad guys and holding them for ransom, Buddy rounds up his men (including Victor Arnold and Jerry Leon) to make the double-crosser pay.
In the early 1970s there was the notion that drug trade, organized crime, and police corruption
might be the sources of the nation’s inner-city troubles.
More significantly, filmmakers discovered… read review