Director Aram Avakian (who made the wonderfully infamous Terry Southern adaptation of novelist John Barth’s End of the Road) turned out this rambunctiously funny crime comedy that has all the on-location goodness we’ve come to expect from seventies New York cinema. Joe Bologna and Cliff Gorman are two NYC cops, disgruntled at their workload and comparatively small salaries, who decide to pull a heist of millions of dollars worth of bearer bonds with the complicity of a local mobster. Needless to say, complications ensue. Screenwriter Donald Westlake adapted his own novel. With a crackerjack supporting cast that includes John Ryan, Joe Spinell and Dolph Sweet.
