Busting
1974 American crime film by Peter Hyams / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Busting | |
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Directed by | Peter Hyams |
Written by | Peter Hyams |
Produced by | Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler |
Starring | Elliott Gould Robert Blake Allen Garfield Antonio Fargas Sid Haig Michael Lerner |
Cinematography | Earl Rath |
Edited by | James Mitchell |
Music by | Billy Goldenberg |
Production company | Chartoff-Winkler Productions[1] |
Distributed by | United Artists[1] |
Release dates | |
Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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 tasked with policing 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 can not be convicted on circumstantial evidence, and dares them to shoot him.