Columbia Pictures
Directed by Don Siegel
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)
Eli Wallach and Robert Keith are professional hoodlums hired to recover heroin smuggled in via unsuspecting tourists in San Francisco. Wallach is the gun and Keith the brains, and along with driver Richard Jaeckel they quickly and efficiently go about their business in a cold, ruthless manner. However, complications arise with their last targets, who mistakenly lose the heroin, setting off a confrontation with their superior and a long police chase through the streets of the city. Fast paced script by Stirling Silliphant, location shooting and steely performance by Wallach, but occasionally let down by some poor special effects: a couple of obvious dummies take a fall and the back projection for the car chase is unconvincing.
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