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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.

The story concerns a police detective who, while investigating the apparent suicide of a young Puerto Rican heroin addict, discovers that his middle-class daughter is involved in the same underworld. The parallels/contrasts between the white-bread girl and the poverty stricken ethnic types gives this exposé its main social significance — presaging similar scenes in much more accomplished films like “Traffic”. But of course, the good-girl-gone-bad scenario was a staple of old-time exploitation pix way back in the days of silent movies and Dwain Esper.

The.Pusher.1960.REPACK.576p.BluRay.AAC.1.0.x264-PTP.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 22 min
Size: 	2.03 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x552 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 373 kb/s
BPP: 	0.249
Audio
#1:  	1.0ch AAC LC @ 116 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/FFFB5A72751F2F3/The.Pusher.1960.REPACK.576p.BluRay.AAC.1.0.x264-PTP.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, English SDH

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