The Seven-Ups (1973)

Buddy, Barilli, Mingo and Ansel, detectives with the NYPD, comprise a secret investigative unit called the Seven-Ups, who, largely undercover, focus on cases leading to felony convictions with prison sentences of seven years or more for the criminals in question. Many within the NYPD who know about the unit don't support the idea of it because of the often unethical way they work on the cases, but their superior, Inspector Gilson, defends the unit solely because of the results. On the sly, Buddy, who is the head of the team, gets much of the information for the cases from Vito Lucia, a childhood friend who still lives and works in the old neighborhood where much of the crime is based. Vito knows that his life could be in danger if the mob finds out that he acts as a snitch for the police. After Buddy starts looking into the loan sharking business of some local mob members, unknown to him some of those mob members are shaken down for a minimum $100,000 apiece, one by one kidnapped for ...

year:1973

actor:Roy ScheiderTony Lo BiancoVictor Arnold

director:Philip D'Antoni

writer:Albert RubenAlexander Jacobs

genre:ActionCrimeDramaMystery

country:USA

language:EnglishItalian

Duration:1h 43min

Release:14 December 1973

IMDb:6.9