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This low-budget, independent picture’s most significant point of interest is its writing pedigree — it’s based on a novel by hard-boiled favorite Ed McBain, with a screenplay by the best-selling novelist Harold Robbins. This contributes to a very schizophrenic result. The influence of the former is obvious in the police procedural framework, with some interesting shot-on-location scenes in Spanish Harlem and other NYC locales. The latter’s heavy hand is apparent in the overblown melodramatic scenes which especially mar the last couple of reels.Read More »