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Detroit 9000 (1973)

Directed by Arthur Marks

Crime

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Overview

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Rated R | Length 106 minutes

Actors

Alex Rocco | Hari Rhodes | Vonetta McGee | Herbert Jefferson Jr. | Robert Phillips | Ellaraino | Scatman Crothers | Sally Baker | Rudy Challenger | Doris Ingraham | George Skaff | Council Cargle | Regis Cordic | Stacy Keach, Sr. | Davis Roberts | Jason Sommers | Bob Charlton | Ed Oldani | Mike Lucci | Martha Jean Steinberg | Woody Willis | Ernie Winstanley | Ron Khoury | Jerry Dahlmann | Whit Vernon | Don Hayes | Herb Weatherspoon | Michael Tylo | Don Shapiro | Erik L. Nelson | Hedgemon Lewis | Ron McIlwain | June Fairchild | Marilyn Joi | Laura Lee

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Viewing Notes

A step or two above the typical crime-oriented blaxploitation movies of the time, Detroit 9000 mixes the racial tensions and moral ambiguities up and spreads them around liberally so that everyone gets a dose of cynicism: the police force, the black politicians and community leaders, both the black and white cop protagonists. This is a world where everyone has hidden motives; everyone is trying to advance their own agendas.

Detroit 9000’s great action scenes, including a long-running gun battle between the cops and a heist gang, benefit a lot from being shot on location in Detroit. This is Detroit in the 1970s, in full-on decline and coming apart at the seams; and it shows in practically every scene.

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