Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Onion Field, The (1979)- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. James Woods, John Savage - Sporadically intense drama based on a real–life cop–killing in 1960s California, notable for James Woods' creepy debut as, you guessed…
Law And Order (TV Mini-Series) (1978)
- Dir. Les Blair
Feat. Peter Dean, Derek Martin - Discerning Brit crime series focusing on three men involved in a bungled armed robbery – the Criminal, the Inspector and the Lawyer and played…
Vegas (TV Series) (Vega$) (1978)- Feat. Robert Urich, Tony Curtis
- Although Michael Mann is credited as creator of this splashy 70s detective series (in which Sin City is at its gaudy and ostentatious best), the…
Big Sleep, The (1977)- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Oliver Reed, Robert Mitchum, Joan Collins… - Having switched the setting of Chandler's classic Marlowe mystery to the U.K, it's still a hard act to follow after the magnificent performance of…
Murder Most English (TV Series) (The Flaxborough Chronicles) (1977)- Feat. Anton Rodgers, Christopher Timothy, Brenda Bruce…
- Based on the Colin Watson mysteries, this Ever–so–English detective series follows two English detectives as they solve particularly…
Professionals, The (TV Series) (1977-1983)- Dir. William Brayne
Feat. Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson - CI5 hard–men Bodie and Doyle shoot first and then ask no questions in their dirty (but necessary) line of work. A seminal TV Series of the…
Enforcer, The (1976)- Dir. James Fargo
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Bradford Dillman… - For sheer hokey excitement, Clint's third outing as Dirty Harry is worth a revisit.
Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) (1976)- Dir. George McCowan, Don Weis
Feat. David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser - The quintessential leather–jacketed, mirror–shaded 70s TV show presented a cool cop pose, with violent, all–American morals.
Barney Miller (TV Series) (1975)- Feat. Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Abe Vigoda…
- This offbeat '70s sitcom about the drudgery and ordinary absurdity of everyday police work remains a cult favourite among TV aficionados and…
Brannigan (1975)- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson… - Effective late–career casting for Wayne, playing a Chicago cop who pursues a criminal across the Atlantic to London. Although featuring a…
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