The Seven Ups

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Seven Ups, 1973.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Seven Ups, 1973.

Guest host Madeleine Stowe introduces The Seven-Ups, 1973.

Somewhat famous scene in which goons Moon and Bo (Richard Lynch and Bill Hickman, also the stunt co-ordinator), who just finished kidnapping a loan-shark, and who might also be cops, don’t realize they’re being set up, as they visit a Manhattan car wash, in The Seven-Ups, 1973.

Producer-director Philip D’Antoni goes all-in for Manhattan, from Grand Central terminal to Park Ave, finding Roy Scheider on what we’ll learn is a police operation, the courier played by ex-detective Sonny Grosso, on-whom Scheider’s character is based, opening the French Connection sort-of follow-up, The Seven-Ups, 1973.

Producer-Director Philip D’Antoni, who also produced The French Connection, 1971, brings leading man Roy Scheider (co-star of of that film) as cop Buddy to meet childhood pal Vito (Tony LoBianco, who was also the informant in the previous film), early in The Seven-Ups, 1973.

Possibly cops and definitely thugs Moon and Bo (Richard Lynch, Bill Hickman) realize something’s wrong in their ransom pay-off, wind up shooting a colleague of real cops Buddy and Barilli (Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold), beginning the celebrated nine-minute car chase in the Bronx, in The Seven-Ups, 1973.

New York City cops wage a war against assorted hoods and criminals after one of their own is brutally killed by a hoodlum in The Seven Ups (1973) starring Roy Scheider and Tony LoBianco, edited by Jerry Greenberg.