The Gauntlet (1978)

109 min · Bad Cop, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, detective film, drama film, thriller film

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Directors

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, Michael Cavanaugh, Mara Corday, Carole Cook, Douglas McGrath, Jeff Morris

The story

Ben Shockley, an alcoholic Phoenix police detective, is assigned to extradite witness Augustina "Gus" Mally from Las Vegas. His superior, Commissioner Edgar Blakelock, remarks that she is a "nothing witness" for a "nothing trial". Upon meeting Mally, he finds that she is a belligerent prostitute with mob ties who is convinced that she and Shockley are being set up.

Catalogue themes and tags

1970s, Alkoholiker, Assertion, Attempted rape, Bus, Cops, Flucht, Footbridge, Hubschrauber, Las Vegas, Mafia, Mordzeugin, Phoenix, Police Corruption, Polizeibeamter, Prostitute, Train Ride, Wüste

Genres

Bad Cop, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, detective film, drama film, thriller film

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