IMDb plot summary: In New York City's Spanish Harlem, detectives Madigan and Bonaro are given 72 hours by their superior to capture a hoodlum wanted for homicide in Brooklyn.
Directed by Don Siegel. Starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, and Harry Guardino.
This is a very strange movie, in that it has no perceivable arc for either its characters or its narrative. Little plot points pop up and are batted around, but nothing actually lands, certainly not in a satisfying way. Every time I thought it was going to do something interesting with the characters or the themes the movie raised, it would just shrug them off. Now that I see that this is the same director as Coogan's Bluff, another 1968 cop drama, I have much less faith that he was ineffectively trying to do anything substantial with this. It's so weird and all-over-the-place.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Madigan < The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Madigan > The Da Vinci Code
Madigan < Vantage Point
Madigan < The Way We Were
Madigan < What Lies Beneath
Madigan < Arlington Road
Madigan < A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Madigan > Double Jeopardy
Madigan < The Wages of Fear
Madigan < Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Madigan > Band of Outsiders
Final spot: #2337 out of 3136.
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