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* TheSeventies: Hippies, Vietnam veterans regarded as sociopaths, police hampered by civil liberties in their fight against an [[HistoryMarchesOn ever-increasing wave of crime]]...
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* TheSeventies: Hippies, Vietnam veterans regarded as sociopaths, police hampered by civil liberties in their fight against an [[HistoryMarchesOn ever-increasing wave of crime]]...
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: At the end of the movie the Mafia boss who planned everything is shown attending confession during which he confesses to various petty sins and asks for absolution for these "and any other sins" he might have committed.
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* ConfessToALesserCrime: At the end of the movie the Mafia boss who planned everything is shown attending confession during which he confesses to various petty sins and asks for absolution for these [[ExactWords "and any other sins" sins"]] he might have committed.
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* TurnInYourBadge: A variation in that it happens at the start of the movie. Torrey has to hand in his gun and badge after a controversial shooting depicted in the ActionPrologue. Rather than wait to be cleared by an inquiry, he resigns and joins another police department on the other side of the country.
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* DespairSpeech: Torrey gives one for society at the end, about how the police are fighting an unstoppable tide of crime and violence. It doesn't quite work as the character is played by Charles Bronson, and even an unstoppable tide would find it difficult to erode his stoic features.
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* DespairSpeech: Torrey gives one for society at the end, about how the police are fighting an unstoppable tide of crime and violence. It doesn't quite work as the character is played by Charles Bronson, Creator/CharlesBronson, and even an unstoppable tide would find it difficult to erode his stoic features.features.
* EmptyElevator: The mercenaries sent to kill several mobsters are hanging beneath the elevator using abseiling gear. Once the mobsters have reached their floor and the doors close, they climb in through the service hatch, enter the room and kill everyone. The mercenaries are shown [[{{Foreshadowing}} rehearsing for the attack using a dummy elevator]] in their training camp in the desert.
* EmptyElevator: The mercenaries sent to kill several mobsters are hanging beneath the elevator using abseiling gear. Once the mobsters have reached their floor and the doors close, they climb in through the service hatch, enter the room and kill everyone. The mercenaries are shown [[{{Foreshadowing}} rehearsing for the attack using a dummy elevator]] in their training camp in the desert.
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* RevealingCoverup: Torrey arrests a washed-up mafia killer, who claims to know information about an impending hit which he'll trade for immunity. Bronson isn't impressed until the man is gunned down in front of him, right after being handed over to the NYPD.
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* BestServedCold: ThePlan is meant to avenge the deaths of old time dons back in ''1931'' which led to the rise of the current Mafia Commission.
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: The plot involves using ex-Vietnam veterans with no connection to TheMafia, similar to the imported 'stone men' who committed the massacre of 1931.
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* TrickedIntoEscaping: A criminal undergoing medical examination is provided with a pistol which he uses to disarm the police officer escorting him. His colleagues are waiting in the carpark with a getaway car and shout for the criminal to run to them; when he does so they kill him with a submachine gun.
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A 1973 action neo noir thriller directed by Creator/MichaelWinner that has a New York detective (Creator/CharlesBronson) going to LA to solve a case involving a mafia family feud.
The movie also stars Creator/MartinBalsam, Creator/DavidSheiner, Creator/NormanFell, Creator/RalphWaite, Creator/PaulKoslo, Creator/StuartMargolin, Creator/JackColvin, and Creator/JohnRitter.
It was released on August 8, 1973.
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!Tropes for the film:
* CarFu: Det. Lou Torrey (Bronson) does an accidental version thanks to a criminal firing a couple of bullets into his windscreen, [[TooDumbToLive then getting run over]] because Torrey is too busy ducking to slam on the brakes. As he's a CowboyCop, he's then accused of having run over the guy deliberately.
* DespairSpeech: Torrey gives one for society at the end, about how the police are fighting an unstoppable tide of crime and violence. It doesn't quite work as the character is played by Charles Bronson, and even an unstoppable tide would find it difficult to erode his stoic features.
* ParkingGarage: After massacring a mob commission meeting, the HiredGuns flee to their cars in the parking garage beneath the building, only to get into a shootout with police who have gotten wind of the plan and are rushing to intercept them.
* SkeletonKey: A police officer sees a car thief opening a truck with a huge bunch of keys, and detains him when he tries to flee.
* TrickAndFollowPloy: The police know there's a mercenary training camp out in the Mojave desert somewhere, so they release one of the mercenaries they arrested earlier (ostensibly he's bailed out by the public defender thanks to the CowboyCop Torrey beating him up) and follow him via helicopter. DaChief mutters, "There goes my pension" after Torrey talks him into it, as ''his'' superior makes it clear they'll both take the blame if it doesn't pan out.
* UnderTheTruck: Torrey is in a car chase with a criminal who tries this, but he falls off his motorcycle in the process and can't get back on before the pursuing car catches up.
The movie also stars Creator/MartinBalsam, Creator/DavidSheiner, Creator/NormanFell, Creator/RalphWaite, Creator/PaulKoslo, Creator/StuartMargolin, Creator/JackColvin, and Creator/JohnRitter.
It was released on August 8, 1973.
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!Tropes for the film:
* CarFu: Det. Lou Torrey (Bronson) does an accidental version thanks to a criminal firing a couple of bullets into his windscreen, [[TooDumbToLive then getting run over]] because Torrey is too busy ducking to slam on the brakes. As he's a CowboyCop, he's then accused of having run over the guy deliberately.
* DespairSpeech: Torrey gives one for society at the end, about how the police are fighting an unstoppable tide of crime and violence. It doesn't quite work as the character is played by Charles Bronson, and even an unstoppable tide would find it difficult to erode his stoic features.
* ParkingGarage: After massacring a mob commission meeting, the HiredGuns flee to their cars in the parking garage beneath the building, only to get into a shootout with police who have gotten wind of the plan and are rushing to intercept them.
* SkeletonKey: A police officer sees a car thief opening a truck with a huge bunch of keys, and detains him when he tries to flee.
* TrickAndFollowPloy: The police know there's a mercenary training camp out in the Mojave desert somewhere, so they release one of the mercenaries they arrested earlier (ostensibly he's bailed out by the public defender thanks to the CowboyCop Torrey beating him up) and follow him via helicopter. DaChief mutters, "There goes my pension" after Torrey talks him into it, as ''his'' superior makes it clear they'll both take the blame if it doesn't pan out.
* UnderTheTruck: Torrey is in a car chase with a criminal who tries this, but he falls off his motorcycle in the process and can't get back on before the pursuing car catches up.
