Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

aceellaway2010 While this film packs a few punches. One scene has lingered with me for all the years since I saw it. The actress carol White is forced to do a humiliating and fully revealing strip for David Hemmings and three other actors. Stacy Keach is also shown nude, but protected. White is fully nude and to be honest not in the greatest shape. The point of sexual degradation and subsequent rape could have been made without showing the Actress in quite so exploitative a manner. I remember at the time feeling embarrassed for her, and angry that she had been made to do this scene to the extent she was.It could have been balanced out by showing Stacy Keach fully nude or David Hemmings could have been shown just as revealed.

imdb-3448 Stacey Keach does a good job as a washed-up, ex-scotland, yard detective. He's an alcoholic bum who has few graces. The film is devoid of glamour, from the grimey wallpaper to the low-life characters - it's like it is. But the film appears to suffer from some really bad editing. The story line flies from deep to shallow, and ends abruptly with a ridiculous finale which made me feel disappointed that I stayed up so late to watch it! Still, I think it was worth the vigil. The performances, by Keach, Freddy Starr, Edward Fox and the villains made it watchable.

baenos This movie is downright terrible. Awful non sequitur transitions for certain scenes and unbelievably stupid drunk decisions made by the main character. I can see why they would've wanted to show his alcoholism causing him to potentially bungle an investigation, but the *whole movie* basically revolves around that, not to mention the fact that even with all his idiotic bungling, he still manages to get his goal accomplished. All I have to say is, Stacy Keach's naked ass. Oh God...

Mikew3001 The British 1976 crime drama, an early work of director Michael Apted ("Gorky Park", "Blink", "The World Is Not Enough") Stacey Keach plays an alcohol-addicted London ex-cop who becomes involved into a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.Stacey Keach's performance is brilliant, and Michael Apted is not only focussing on the thrilling crime plot but also on the portrait of a self-destroying loser nature and alcoholic. The rest of the cast is also outstanding, featuring Edward Fox as despaired father of the kidnapped daughter and David Hemmings as brutal gangster boss. There are some scenes of typical seventies' sex, hard violence and breath-taking action like a money transporter robbery at the end. David Hentschel's electronic progressive rock score in the style of Goblin, Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons Project supports the dark atmosphere and hard action of this thrilling and sometimes disturbing crime drama. A great, little forgotten movie.