spoiler bury under a mountain of medical bill and his funeral business not be able to dig him out from under them undertaker vito lucia and tony lo bianco and come up with a plan to make a load of cash with the help of his two crooked pal moon and bo and richard lynch and bill hickman . vito get close with his boyhood friend buddy manucci and roy scheider and a a mob informer to win over buddy trust and have him tell vito what come down on the street of new york in regard to mob activity . buddy be a cop who work in a sub rosa unite of the nypd and the seven ups and that do thing their way to clean up the street of new york of criminal . vito get information from buddy and make it look to buddy that he really give him tip about the mob and what it up too and use that information to tip off his hoodlum associate and moon and bo and to rip the mobster off of their weekly take as well a kidnap top mob loan shark and hold them for ransom . everything be go well for vito and co. until the mob decide to retaliate and mistakenly grabs beat and kidnap a member of the seven ups ansel and ken kercheval and who be work undercover think he be one of the hood who be kidnap and rip them off . later ansel be accidentally kill by moon when he blast out the trunk of the car that ansel be lock in think that there be a suitcase full or cash and ransom and in it . fast pace and exciting movie with that gritty and grimy photography of new york city that be so effective in the movie the french connection which also star both roy scheider and tony lo bianco who be in this movie too . incredible car chase that start in downtown brooklyn and end up in the wild of new jersey some 15 to 20 mile away with buddy almost end up decapitate for his heroic effort . roy scheider who be not a big man be a tough and effective a any big action actor i can think off like clint eastwood would have be in the same movie . scheider remind me a lot of and he even look a bit like him and former welterweight and middleweight champion gene fullmer who beat the great sugar ray robinson for the middleweight championship back in 1957 and act like him too in the movie represent tough durable and destructive . tony lo bianco be very good a vito the undertaker the lowlife heel who play off buddy and the mob to the point that lead to buddy partner ansel get kill . even though he trash you can not in a way not help feeling sorry for vito since he only want the money he get from the ripped offed mobster to pay his sick wife rise hospital and medical bill . even the fact that ansel be kill due to his action vito never want anybody to get hurt but like they say when you play with fire you end up get burn . in the end vito have a lot of explain to do to the not so sympathetic and care mobster . the movie the seven ups have the late bill hickman do the dangerous stunt with the car chase as well a act in the film . hickman be also the stunt man in both great movie that have him do the driving on the road street and highway of new york city and san francisco the french connection and bullitt .