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...shrewd adaptation. Peter Benchley's novel spent too much time on dry land, plodding around Irving Wallace country, reinvestigating such tired phenomena as the uneasy marriage, the adulterous wife, the snaky seducer. In the movie, most of this lallygagging is eliminated. Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) must still fight the town's mayor, who is fearful that closing the beaches after the first shark attacks will ruin his resort's economy. He still joins forces with Quint, the professional shark killer (Robert Shaw, employing an ornate accent of indeterminate origin), and a youthful ichthyologist named Hooper (Richard...
...Scheider, 39, got an Oscar nomination for playing Gene Hackman's buddy in The French Connection. The role in Jaws gave him a shot at shaking the sidekick image that had attached itself since then. A solid, working New York actor who did time with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival and the Lincoln Center Repertory, Scheider keeps his roots firmly in the East. He has a farm in upstate New York and a part interest in Joe Allen's, an actors' hangout near Broadway...
...fresh out of college, a Jewish princess from Harrisburg, Pa., who gets her heart broken in the big city. She falls hard for a doctor (mother will be pleased) who treats her casually (mother will be irked) and brushes her aside (mother will be furious). The doctor (Roy Scheider) takes up with Sheila's slovenly roommate (Rebecca Dianna Smith), who calls herself an actress but turns out to be... well, you can imagine. Mother would not be surprised...
...extracted from L.H. Whittemore's book about the pair's exploits in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the late '60s.) On screen, though, their heroics look lame. We expect our cops to be either a good deal meaner (Hackman in The French Connection, Scheider in The Seven-Ups) or at least stronger fantasy projections of unwavering strength and authority, like Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry. Greenberg and Hantz here are neither real enough nor friends. romantic enough...
Still, The Seven-Ups is by far the best of the current blotter of cop movies. It deals more directly than any, including Serpico (TIME, Dec. 31), with the criminal pathology of some police men. Roy Scheider, the leader of the Seven-Ups (and Gene Hackman's part ner in The French Connection), has just the right grave, anonymous face for the part, the right quality of eruptive violence. There are no heroes here. The movie has been made with the dogged intensity that cops can bring to their work, which explains why you have a feeling of having...