The Seven Ups
The SevenUps is a 1973 American dramatic thriller film produced and directed by Philip DAntoni. It stars Roy Scheider as a crusading policeman who is the leader of The SevenUps, a squad of plainclothes officers who use dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry on charges leading to prison sentences of seven years or more upon prosecution, hence the name of the team.
NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been getting flak from the higherups in the New York City police force he works for because his team of renegade policemen, known as The SevenUps the name comes from the fact that most convictions done by the team heralds jail sentences to criminals from Seven years and Up has been using unorthodox methods to capture criminals this is illustrated as the team ransacks an antiques store that is a front for the running of counterfeit money.Also lately, there has been a rash of kidnappings the twist is that it seems that only upper echelon criminals Mafioso and whitecollar types are the ones being kidnapped, illustrated when Max Kalish is kidnapped and a ransom is paid at a car wash. This leads to many plot twists in which Manucci tries to figure out the puzzle, with help supplied to him by an informant Tony Lo Bianco, who turns out to be untrustworthy, leading to the death of one of the SevenUp officers. ........
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