The future Barney Miller, Hal Linden, joins forces with injured cop Tony Lo Bianco to find out who is behind corruption that ended up causing Lo Bianco to lose his arm. Their gruff lieutenant, Paul Benjamin, objects to everything that they do, but lobianco is determined even though he is no longer on official payroll and on disability. Benjamin doesn't just go by the books. He throws the books at anybody who breaks the rules oh, especially the ones that feed makes up. In fact, he's so abrasive that it almost seems like he might be on the take or somehow involved in the investigation. When they do come across the culprit who was responsible for Lo Biano's disability, a strength comes out of the one-armed man that the two armed culprit can't battle against.
I love vintage action films like this on the streets of New York City because you get to see it before the elevated trains all disappeared and major cleanup began to take place. This takes the viewer very far downtown, as well as Manhattan streets that don't often get filmed on. The performances are serviceable, nothing to really real about, but Linden and Lo Blanco made a good team. It would be just a few years later that Linden got a different kind of badge and lots of wisecracks on the TV sitcom "Barney Miller", but I could easily see this as a series or at least a few movies with Linden on the force aiding a former cop now turned private detective played by Lo Bianco. This certainly is fast moving and never dull.
I love vintage action films like this on the streets of New York City because you get to see it before the elevated trains all disappeared and major cleanup began to take place. This takes the viewer very far downtown, as well as Manhattan streets that don't often get filmed on. The performances are serviceable, nothing to really real about, but Linden and Lo Blanco made a good team. It would be just a few years later that Linden got a different kind of badge and lots of wisecracks on the TV sitcom "Barney Miller", but I could easily see this as a series or at least a few movies with Linden on the force aiding a former cop now turned private detective played by Lo Bianco. This certainly is fast moving and never dull.
