The Seven-Ups (1973)

Released December 14th in the US.

Filmed in New York and New Jersey.

The story: Buddy, Barilli, Mingo, and Ansel are all detectives with the NYPD.

They are also the group known by their fellow detectives as the Seven-Ups, a secret undercover unit known for cracking down on felons whose crimes usually come with prison time of seven years.

Buddy is the head of the unit and gets most of his info from an old friend who still lives in the neighborhood where most of the Seven-Ups cases occur.

Buddy begins investigating a loan-sharking ring among the local mob.

Little does he realize, the same guys are being shaken down by men pretending to be undercover cops for the DA.

When one of Buddy's men gets killed, he has to investigate even further to figure out who is to blame.

Stars Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold, Ken Kercheval, Jerry Leon, Richard Lynch, Bill Hickman, Tony Lo Bianco, Larry Haines, Lou Polan, Matt Russo, Joe Spinelli, Robert Burr, Rex Everhart, David Wilson

Directed by Philip DAntoni

Rated PG
ACTION/MYSTERY