Badge 373

Badge 373 is a 1973 crime thriller film inspired, as was The French Connection, by the life and career of Eddie Egan, here called Eddie Ryan. The film, which has a screenplay by journalist Pete Hamill, was coproduced and directed by Howard Koch, and stars Robert Duvall as Ryan, with Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow and Eddie Egan himself as a police lieutenant.

Eddie Ryan Robert Duvall, a tough, nononsense, abrasive and racist Irish NYPD cop, has to turn in his badge after scuffling with a Puerto Rican suspect who then falls to his death from a rooftop, but that doesnt stop him from heading out on a oneman crusade to find out who killed his partner of three years, Gigi Caputo Louis Cosentino, all the while neglecting his new livein girlfriend, Maureen Verna Bloom. Ryans search leads him to Puerto Rican drug kingpin Sweet Willie Henry Darrow, and a shipment of guns for Puerto Rican independenistas.Badge 373 was shot on location on the streets of New York City. At one point, in what film writer Jeff Stafford calls a deliberate attempt to recall the carchase scene from The French Connection, which was also based on the exploits of Eddie Egan, Robert Duvall as police detective Eddie Ryan attempts to chase down suspects in their car by hijacking a city bus, the 14th Street crosstown. The chase does not follow actual Manhattan geography, and passes locations including the West 125th viaduct and a meatpacking plant, and a branch of the record store King Karol at 460 West 42nd Street. Locations for other scenes include the Manhattan Bridge, with the World Trade Centers Twin Towers in the background, and the FDR Drive, with the United Nations headquarters visible. ........

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