Directed by Ernest Pintoff
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Code Red)
John Marley, who will forever be remember for waking up with a horse's head in The Godfather, here plays a cigar-chomping detective on the New York police force approaching retirement. On perhaps his last case, a woman is viciously beaten and murdered in her apartment entrance way. Her black boyfriend, and drug pusher, is arrested but adamantly proclaims his innocence. The real killer strikes again and Marley follows up the few clues he's got which get him into trouble with a powerful politician. Shot in a shaky, hand held style that gives it an amateurish quality, although it does make good use of NYC locations. Some interesting early career appearances by Morgan Freeman, Rue McClanahan, Ted Lange and even Barney Miller's Steve Landesberg directing a "blue movie".
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