Mitchell (film)

Mitchell is a 1975 film starring Joe Don Baker as an abrasive, alcoholic police detective, released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in the USA on September 10, 1975. It was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.

A trade union lawyer named Walter Deaney John Saxon kills a burglar in his house. Only an unorthodox plainclothes detective named Mitchell Joe Don Baker believes that Deaney is guilty of something more than selfdefense, but Chief Albert Pallin Robert Phillips tells him that Deaney is wanted for every federal law violation in the book and is therefore FBI property.To keep Mitchell away from Deaney, the Chief orders him to stake out the home of James Arthur Cummings Martin Balsam, a wealthy man with ties to the mob whose big scene is the import and export of stolen merchandise. Mitchell initially is unconcerned with Cummings and focuses primarily on Deaney. But he gets drawn in after Cummings discovers that Salvatore Mistretta Morgan Paull, cousin of his mafioso benefactor Tony Gallano Harold J. Stone, is bringing in a shipment of stolen heroin from Mexico without Cummings consent. ........

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