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In Harlem, Jim Harris and his partner dressed as cops go robbing the mob. Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 7 / 10 racially charged grimness And this does feel like an exceptionally amoral film that we never see nowadays more is the pity There's a subplot featuring character interaction between Anthony Quinn's nasty racist white cop and Yaphet Kotto's not very nasty by the books black cop that might have been clichéd but does seem fresh and realistic, probably down to the fact the performances and writing portraying a rather amoral relationship between the two men and the wider world.

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It's the sort of film Tarantino has been inspired by but unlike Tarantino's work this movie is devoid of post modernism and crippling self indulgence and is a relatively tightly plotted screenplay where lots of nasty things happen to lots of nasty people. The story itself is no great shakes - a couple of black dudes rip off and kill a few members of the Mafia and the black underworld and also kill a couple of uniformed cops in the process and find if not the entire world against them then at least the law enforcers and law breakers of NYC wanting to cap their ass. Perhaps the fact this film is consciously insensitive and hard hitting works against it ? This is a pity because it's not some ' Blaxploitation ' fare but more of a New Hollywood thriller at its best

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It as also a sign of the times back then that the TV broadcast had the F word overdubbed to something less offensive but the racial slurs against both black and whites remained intact. This type of movie would be broadcast on television 30 years ago and no one would blink an eyelid but at the same time you can understand why it wouldn't be shown on network TV today. I forgot the title but could vividly remember a number of scenes especially a line of dialogue where two characters describe a third one having his genitals mutilated. I caught this on BBC 1 one night many years ago. Reviewed by Theo Robertson 7 / 10 Gritty Violent Thriller That Deserves To Be Better Known Will Jim Harris and his accomplices be found? Mattelli investigate the case while the Italian Mafia and the black gangsters hunt the killers down. They flee to the runaway car driven by Henry J. However, they startle when the suitcase with the money falls on the floor and Jim kills the five men with a machine gun.

Out of the blue, the small-time thieves Jim Harris and Joe Logart knock on the door disguised as police officers to steal US$ 300,000.00 from the Mafia. In Harlem, two Italian mobsters meet three black gangsters that work for the kingpin Doc Johnson to collect dirty money from their associates in an apartment building.

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