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The Seven-Ups

The Seven-Ups
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Movie poster
Directed by Philip D'Antoni
Produced by Philip D'Antoni
Screenplay by Albert Ruben
Alexander Jacobs
Story by Sonny Grosso
Starring Roy Scheider
Tony Lo Bianco
Larry Haines
Richard Lynch
Ken Kercheval
Music by Don Ellis
Cinematography Urs Furrer
Edited by Gerald B. Greenberg
Stephen A. Rotter
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • December 14, 1973 (1973-12-14)
Running time
103 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2,425,000
Box office $4.1 million (US/Canada rentals)

The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American crime drama thriller film produced and directed by Philip D'Antoni. It stars Roy Scheider as a crusading policeman who is the leader of The Seven-Ups, 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.

D'Antoni took his sole directing credit on this film. He was earlier responsible for producing the gritty cop thriller Bullitt, followed by The French Connection, which won him the 1971 Academy Award for Best Picture. All three feature a memorable car chase sequence.

Several other people who worked on The French Connection were also involved in this film, such as Scheider, screenwriter and police technical advisor Sonny Grosso, composer Don Ellis, and stunt coordinator Bill Hickman. 20th Century Fox was again the distributor.

Buddy Manucci, played by Scheider, is a loose remake of the character of Buddy "Cloudy" Russo he played in The French Connection, a character who also used dirty tactics to capture his enemies, and who was also based on Sonny Grosso.

NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been getting flak from the higher-ups in the New York City police force he works for because his team of renegade policemen, known as The Seven-Ups (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.


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