Video of the event existed at the time of the posting in 2012 and then disappeared some two weeks later. Bill cosby, robert culp, james woods, michael moriarty, vincent gardenia, ed lauter, robert culp. A neonoir, that trades in the same world as the long. So do the torpedoes who come barreling out of the dark and start shooting. Al hickey and frank boggs robert culp are a pair of private eyes who are approached by an attorney to find his girlfriend, who has gone missing. Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a. This movie tries to be a buddy picture, but misses the mark. The shadow cinema of the american 70s four years after their pairing on i spy ended, robert culp and bill cosby reteamed for this downbeat noir written by walter hill about two lowrent l. Soon after, the two confront quemando, who leads them to rice and leroy. Jan 3, 2020 suffers through audience never being entirely certain as to the identity of some of the characters. With trained assassins constantly on their tale, the police constantly getting in the way, and mary jane herself apparently plotting against them, hickey and. Fresh off her oscar win for network 1976, wideeyed faye dunaway stars as controversial fashion photographer laura mars her photos are actually the work of the great german. This was culps only venture into movie directing, and he handles the.
In hickey and boggs we get three groups chasing after that cash, the cops and a mob family, of course, but this being a 1970s movie there is a group of black revolutionaries for whom the money was stolen in order to finance some revolutionary activity. The stars of the witty tv series i spy were reunited for this downbeat crime thriller, which takes a much darker and more violent look at the lives of two detectives for hire. When becoming members of the site, you could use the full range of. When hickey refuses to be engaged, boggs gives him the same speech about partnership and states that by following the money, he can avenge nyonas murder. The meeting with mary jane is to take place in parking lot 32 of dodger stadium. Adding to the disaster, the meeting tips off the identity of the detectives to mobsters dealing with the radicals, and the gangsters execute hickeys wife in an effort. Music is by ted ashford and cinematography by bill butler. With bill cosby, robert culp, taronce allen, rosalind cash. Graded using jon warren grading scalesee full details. Their investigation leads them to a large sum of money from a pittsburgh. The film has hills terse dialogue and delicate plotting, while culp handles being both in front and behind the camera exceptionally well. After a group of college friends get together for a murder mystery weekend, the fun and games take a turn for the worse when some of them end up disappearing.
Hickey and boggs is not involved in a story or with characters really worthy of a full theatrical treatment. Hickey and boggs, a tale of chasing and carnage the. Bear in mind, i was born in october, 1961, so i was, what, eleven years old. A man in drag shows up this is the guy rice sent in drag on purpose.
Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of hickey and boggs with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. Eyes of laura mars 1978 as salacious as a dime novel thriller and set to the ubiquitous beat of early disco, irvin kershners homage to italian giallo films provides a celebration of sleaze as high chic. And one that now seems very rich, managing as it did, over the. With the guntoting hickey and boggs in their cars, the men drive to the isolated beach where mary jane is to meet them. An attempt to recover both the money and the girl goes awry when hickey and boggs infiltrate a meeting with the radicals. It stars culp, bill cosby, james woods, taronce, carmencristina moreno, rosalind cash, lou frizzel, isabel sanford and sheila sullivan. Hickey and boggs bill cosby, classic film noir, movies. Hickey and boggs are waiting, as are the torpedoes. Hickey and boggs is not involved in a story or with characters really worthy of a full. Shelley winters, barry sullivan, colleen miller, gregg palmer. When hickey and boggs get cornered in the apartment, they climb out onto the fire escape while the torpedoes toss the place. It baffles me to this day that that movie was not a megahit. The film is i kid you not one of the alltime great private eye noirs, from a decade that also gave us such classic gumshoe flicks as.