Culp stages several impressive shootouts, including one in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at an ambushed meet-up and a climactic beach battle. Even in its more frenetic scenes though, Culp never loses the aura of desperation that colors the entire film and makes for a fascinating portrait of two haggard private eyes with nothing to lose.
The MGM Limited Edition Collection burn-on-demand disc is quite solid, presenting an image with reasonable sharpness and fairly bold color definition. The print used for the transfer is pretty clean, and its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio automatically sets it way ahead of the previous cropped DVD, which also featured a notoriously bad transfer. It’d be nice if MGM had seen fit to do more than relegate this one to the DVD-R heap, but it’s sure better than nothing.
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Article comments
1 - Mark Bensette Aux Bois
I agree the older I SPY stuff was great, everything since has been marginal at best. The Murphy?Wilson thing was ok but should have been titled differently. Thoses two would be great in a Buddy Movie series........ Mark
2 - Rob J
A superb neo noir from the 70s which has been completely overlooked. I saw it once over thirty years, and have never seen
available on VHS let alone DVD.
It is good as "The Outfit", another neglected classic.