JUST ADDED: Joseph Culp, actor and son of Robert Culp, will join us IN PERSON, schedule permitting, on Sunday, April 23, to discuss his father’s enduring film legacy.
It’s pure Culp Fiction when a girl who might hold more than key information from the Federal Reserve robbery goes missing, and the private detective team of Hickey & Boggs are hired by a somewhat nefarious character to locate her. Robert Culp (Frank Boggs) and Bill Cosby (Al Hickey) reprise their I Spy chemistry in Culp’s one-off-directorial effort, as a trail of bodies turns sunny Los Angeles into a dark and gritty, bullet riddled, 70’s noir gem. Often imitated screenwriter Walter Hill debuts his mastery for action sequences and proficiency for dialogue, anchored in a plot that has the pavement sinking beneath the private dicks feet. Culp mailed us a 1972 post card of Los Angeles that isn’t sold on Hollywood Blvd, but is a must see for crime drama aficionados.
Kim Morgan discusses Hickey & Boggs on the New Beverly blog.
