this be a great small film . i say small because it doesn not have a hundred gun fire or a dozen explosion and a in a john woo film . great performance by roy scheider and the three bad guy . john frankenheimer seem to have more luck with small production these day . the film be very easy to watch and the story be more of a yarn than a washing machine instead of everything go around and around and it seem a though thing just get bad a the plot thickens . wonderful end and very positive . i never read the elmore leonard book and but it can not be much different from the film because it feel like i be watch an elmore leonard movie .