Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
- Patrolman Cramer
- (as Roy Applegate)
- Detective
- (as Brian Doyle Murray)
Storyline
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- TriviaBurt Reynolds almost suffered serious burns to his face while doing his own stunt during a scene in which he is set on fire. Out-of-control flames whipped up his asbestos-lined coat sleeve, around his neck, and along the back of his head. This cut made it into the movie.
- GoofsCarella poses as a homeless man in order to catch the firebugs. But he remains clean-shaven, without the several days' growth of beard that a real bum would surely have.
- Quotes
Detective: What do you mean they're putting garbage in your car?
Man with Garbage: Every morning garbage in the front seat. You know, coffee grounds, potato peels and moldy fruit. It just gets such a mess when it gets on the floor and, you know, walking around with it slipping on your heels. It's disgusting; old chewed up bones like they had a dog or something. And one day it looked as though somebody had blown their nose in pieces of old toilet paper and wet cigarette butts and things like that. It's really disgusting, and you can't find that in your car seat every morning and live through it. My stomach turns and I really threw up several times, but not in the front seat of the car.
- Crazy creditsEvan Hunter wrote the "87th Precinct" novels under the nom de plume Ed McBain. For this film, he is credited with the screenplay under his own name, but as McBain for "based on the novel by."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Inside 'Live and Let Die' (1999)
Attempt at bringing the irreverent, anti-establishment, comedy-drama of M*A*S*H to the police squad, is a complete disaster. The 'wacky' humor is both empty and annoying. Throwing in some strained sentiment and jarring action makes it even more baseless.
The actors seem to be just walking through their roles and the direction has no energy or vision. The pacing is disjointed without any rhythm or logic. Just about every shot is dark and shadowy. Like it was filmed on a camera with a very bad exposure.
The police station just never seems real. The precinct on BARNEY MILLER is more believable. Also having Reynolds and Weston dress as nuns just to catch the bad guy is a perfect example of forced humor.
The lowest point involves a unnecessary story thread where Welch goes after a prostitute killer. The final confrontation scene between her and the killer is a complete and pathetic rip off of the similar scene in KLUTE (complete with those chiming piano chords). This alone solidifies it as one of the biggest bombs of all time. If that's not enough you also have Dinah Shore singing "I'll be Seeing You" over the closing credits.
The whole thing is just excruciating. Does feature a young up and coming Tom Skerrit. Also has Charles Martin Smith as a punk who sets street bums on fire.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Auf leisen Sohlen kommt der Tod
- Filming locations
- Los Angeles, California, USA(police station interiors)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $566,628
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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