Tough Chicago cop takes on a tough gangster. This was a TV pilot for a show that was to follow these two characters through 20 years of conflict. The series was supposed to start in the early 1960's and run through the 1980's, it ended up lasting 2 seasons.
Michael Mann was one of the producers and cult director Abel Ferrara was hired to direct. Money was spent on an authentic 1960's atmosphere. The result was yet another typical cop show.
This is the usual tough talking cop who has put together a "team" of colorful tough cop characters not afraid to "bend the rules" to "get the job done." The criminals are all the leftovers from The Godfather.
Considering the money spent on this pilot the whole thing is kind of pathetic in it's utter banality.
The french director Jean Pierre Melville was a lot better at taking these kind of retread crime stories and making interesting films out of them
97 minutes.
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