well this movie be nothing special and i laugh at anyone who say it the great crime drama ever and it not and it not even at the same level a heat and it typical offensive blaxploitation . that about sum up the movie and except not as well know and not as effective a heat and anthony quinn and yaphette be mirror image of sidney poitier character and rod steiger . pretty standard blaxplotation . quinn basically play a racist police name capt . mattelli whose about as racist a they come beat up any black person in his path and unfortunately no one in this film give him an equal amount of beating . kotto a lt. pope who be work the case with him involve steal loot of the mafia from a couple of black criminal . man all the character in the movie be truly revolting black and white . mattelli isn not the only racist cop and and in fact he a hypocrite racist who be take money from a black mafia kingpin . truly hilarious . there be other racist and corrupt white cop and and for a twist we have some black pimp and dealer who sell out their black partner in crime . really there isn not too much to say about the movie and it a blaxploitation and we all know how this bad film end . i do get a kick of lt. pope slam the captain down call him a racist sob ( which he be ) and the captain have the gall to change the subject represent you want my job and do not you . not really he just want you to stop be a white beatnik racist . anyhow only for true movie collector of this type of cinema everyone else should avoid it .