Very much a spin off from the highly acclaimed film "The French Connection," which Roy Scheider had done a few years earlier, but "The Seven Ups" falls short of the same level of intensity. Even some of the same background music is reused. But Scheider is more wooden and unappealing in this film. Thankfully the film explores new areas of New York in its scenes. Bill Hickman is great once again in his stunt driving, this time along 10th Avenue and one of the parkways. Richard Lynch is his suitably scary accomplice, Moon, who gets his justice in the end. Tony LoBianco returns from the French Connection, this time as Roy's longtime friend, who pretends to be an informer for the police, but is actually working against the police. Police procedures in the film are once again highly questionable at best, and more often illegal, but the results are all that matter, apparently. Women are mostly missing in this film.
Review of The Seven-Ups
