The Seven-Ups

The Seven-Ups (1973) is a New York crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Philip D'Antoni — the producer behind The French Connection — and starring Roy Scheider as the head of an undercover NYPD squad that only handles cases carrying seven years or more.

The unit operates in a grey zone between detective work and freelance enforcement. When a string of mob kidnappings points toward something bigger than a simple ransom scheme, Scheider's detective keeps pulling threads until the danger gets personal. The film is best known for a prolonged car chase through Manhattan that D'Antoni staged as a direct successor to what he had done on The French Connection — same stunt driver Bill Hickman, same commitment to no-cut real-speed camerawork. As a portrait of early-70s New York policing, gritty and unglamorous, it holds up. Watch The Seven-Ups (1973) online on iFILM.