[vladimir998]

Freepers, I need help finding the title of a film. The film was from the 1970s, a crime drama, in which a police officer/detective who was not respected by his superiors was given a case they thought he couldn't solve. He found the suspect and chased the man (in his underwear or half-dressed IIRC) into an elevator where they had a tense standoff at gun point. In the elevator they talked, and the cop realized the man was not guily (IIRC). They worked together to get out of the elevator and were both killed by waiting police officers.

Does anyone know the name of this film? I have been trying to find it (at least it's title) for sometime now.

[freedumb2003]

???

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Was the supposed criminal a black man? I remember a trailer on tv back the of a black man in boxer shorts running through Manhattan in boxer shorts.

[BenLurkin]

THis site: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/elevator/police/shot-in-the-head/ might be a good starting point

[Cvengr]

Almost reads like Gary Oldman in the Professional.

[vladimir998]

Ha! I may have just found it!

Report to the Commissioner
“Less a thriller than a cop drama (despite a climactic chase and tense stand-off in an elevator)...”

http://www.soundonsight.org/9-great-cop-films-you-may-not-have-seen/

[Rocko]

Quite a cast:

Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Hector Elizondo, Tony King ("Satin Struthers" in SPARKLE), Michael McGuire, Edward Grover, Dana Elcar, Bob Balaban, William Devane, Stephen Elliott, Richard Gere, Vic Tayback, Albert Seedman, Noelle North.

I'll have to check it out!

[TEXOKIE]

bfl

[HomeAtLast]

Is this the lost-movie thread? Does anyone remember an old flick starring...I dunno, maybe it was Gary Cooper...all I remember was one scene. The luckless hero was always getting into misfortune, and at one point acquired a grand old house and next thing you know it burned down. It was, I think, a screwball comedy, and of that era, but maybe it was Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart. It wasn’t “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” and I don’t recall that the house was central to the story, it was just about his horrible bad luck.