A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book development work as well as normal social graces.
Acting
Joe Don Baker's sweaty, snarling commitment to pure chaos.
Direction
McLaglen somehow made a 97-minute film feel like 3 hours.
Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Joe Don Baker
Mitchell
Martin Balsam
James Arthur Cummings
John Saxon
Walter Deaney
Linda Evans
Greta
Morgan Paull
Salvatore Mistretta
Harold J. Stone
Tony Gallano
Merlin Olsen
Benton
Robert Phillips
Chief Albert Pallin
Buck Young
Detective Aldridge
Rayford Barnes
Detective Tyzack
Jerry Hardin
Desk Sergeant
Sidney Clute
Rudy Moran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
MST3K's 1993 takedown made this film more famous than its original release; Baker reportedly hated the mockery.
A perfect time capsule of post-Watergate cynicism meeting pre-disco cop show tropes — the anti-hero as embarrassing uncle.
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