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Directed by ROBERT CULP Screenplay by WALTER HILL
There is little sense but much of interest in this quirkish thriller about a couple of Los Angeles gumshoes on their uppers. Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are two private eyes who look as if they just got pulled out of a lineup. Their office is off a parking lot behind Hollywood Boulevard, although you'd have a better chance of finding them at the bar down the street, last two stools...
...Culp, who is directing his first feature film, disdains coherence in favor of establishing a seedy L.A. milieu, which he does so well that the frenzied illogic of the narrative is almost forgotten. Chili-dog stands, musty apartments atrophied since the 1920s, labyrinthine ranch houses perched on the edge of cracking cliffs, all give Hickey and Boggs a fine, evocative sense of a seamy city rotting in the sunshine...
...Culp and Cosby, who worked to gether on television's I Spy for three years, have established an effortless and instinctual rapport. Instead of casual, world-hopping superspies, here we have them as two weary, dreary guys whose lives are on the skids. Hick ey is estranged from his wife (excellently acted by Rosalind Cash...
...Bunny Collector Hugh Hefner's million-dollar hutch in Los Angeles, a hundred or so guests, including Warren Beany, Robert Culp and Peter Sellers had watched a screening of The Godfather beside the swimming pool. Some stayed on to play backgammon, sip their drinks and kibbitz. In another part of the pad, the action suddenly erupted into violence. Four intruders slipped through a gate in Hefner's electrified fence, bumped into a chauffeur and were challenged. Drawing knives, they attacked the chauffeur. When a guard saw the assault on a closed-circuit TV screen and rushed to help...