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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.

1 posted on 03/24/2013 11:27:18 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

???

2 posted on 03/24/2013 11:32:50 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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To: vladimir998

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.


3 posted on 03/24/2013 11:33:12 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (CLICK my name. See the murals before they are painted over! POTEET THEATER in OKC!)
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To: vladimir998

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


5 posted on 03/24/2013 11:35:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: vladimir998

Almost reads like Gary Oldman in the Professional.


6 posted on 03/24/2013 11:38:19 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: 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/


8 posted on 03/24/2013 11:41:11 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
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!

20 posted on 03/24/2013 12:43:09 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: vladimir998

bfl


22 posted on 03/24/2013 12:56:34 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: vladimir998

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.


24 posted on 03/24/2013 2:57:37 PM PDT by HomeAtLast ( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)
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