Cover for the Special Edition Bluray from Kino Lorber. New art highlighting some of the over the edge action.

Busting-it’s a dirty job!!! Elliot Gould and Robert Blake in what is essentially one of the grittiest films of the ‘70s…

Chris Nersinger
5 min readJul 10, 2022

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What this film exposes about undercover vice cops can’t be seen on your television set.

…only at a movie theatre!

Two underrated performances from two of the most popular actors of that decade. From Peter Hyams- the director of Capricorn One & Running Scared. Boasting a tour de force score from Billy Goldenburg.

The Film and the Soundtrack-

It captures the loneliness of a cop trying to do the right thing all the while having city hall shove a stumbling block at every turn because their quarry is so well connected that even the commissioner & city “councilmen” are showing up in the raids on…

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Chris Nersinger

Was born the year that DR. NO (1962) premiered. His first movie, age 3 -MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS (1958). A writer of all things Pop Culture. Movies, Music, TV. ...