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Busting
Sign in to saveBusting is a 1974 American buddy cop film, directed by Peter Hyams in his theatrical directorial debut, starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as police detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The film was the main inspiration for the cop series Starsky & Hutch, which premiered in 1975 and, like this film, also featured Antonio Fargas.
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6.2Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
Cast
- Elliott Gould as Vice Detective Michael Keneely
- Robert Blake as Vice Detective Patrick Farrel
- Allen Garfield as Carl Rizzo
- Antonio Fargas as Stephen
- Michael Lerner as Marvin
- Sid Haig as Rizzo's Bouncer
Themes
- los angeles, california
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- Duration
- 92
- FilmAffinity ID
- 872439
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- publication date
- 1975-06-23
- title
- Busting
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Busting is a 1974 American buddy cop film, directed by Peter Hyams in his theatrical directorial debut, starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as police detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The film was the main inspiration for the cop series Starsky & Hutch, which premiered in 1975 and, like this film, also featured Antonio Fargas.
In the film, the honest efforts of the two detectives against organized crime are undermined by police corruption and by the influence of a local crime boss over the police department. They are sent to police gay bars instead. The detectives resort to harassing the crime boss and his family, until uncovering evidence of drug trafficking in a hospital which counted the crime boss as a patient. The crime boss states to them that he cannot be convicted on circumstantial evidence, and dares them to shoot him. Busting was the last film Blake starred in before his fame reached greater heights with the cop drama series Baretta.