Street People 1976

The Hunting Season Has Opened In The Naked City

4.9 / 10   17 vote(s)
Drama Action Crime

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.

Release Date 1976-03-30
Runtime 1h 41m
Directors Maurizio Lucidi, Guglielmo Garroni
Producers Samuel Z. Arkoff, Manolo Bolognini, Luigi Borghese, Guglielmo Garroni
Writers Roberto Leoni, Franco Bucceri, Maurizio Lucidi, Roberto Leoni, Franco Bucceri, Nicola Badalucco, Maurizio Lucidi, Randal Kleiser, Ernest Tidyman, Ernest Tidyman

I suspect this is another one of those films that Roger Moore will claim paid for an house, or a swimming pool or something - for believe me, it has nothing at all to recommend it to anyone. Here he has to team up with Stacy Keach to find out who has been smuggling heroin into San Francisco - very much to the chagrin of local mafioso "Salvatore Francesco" (Ivo Garrani), for such activities are seriously frowned upon by the church. The film has it's fair share of car chases and shoot 'em ups, but the story is wafer-thin, with an almost interminable build up to an ending that we could have created ourselves on a beer mat. Keach is on nowhere near decent form, and Moore is clearly just walking from his winnebago to the set, doing his job, then heading back to put the cucumber slices back on his eyes. It reminded me of a bog-standard episode of "Starsky and Hutch"...

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