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Busting (Amazon.com Exclusive) [VHS]

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This film was one of a series of very good late 60's and 70's pictures I saw in South America at a movie-club over the course of several years. I then resaw Busting on an independent tv channel in 1982. It says a lot about corruption at the public and private levels and ends with Gould's throwing away his badge in a gesture of disgust. This is a hard look at a country already with problems in the 70's and in deep trouble now in political and economic terms with the nation deeply divided and no clear consensus for remedial action. The scene at the gay bar where the two detectives decide to dance together elicited a curious reaction from the viewers in Uruguay-a mixture of disbelief and nervous amusement. I also laughed, perhaps too loudly, but at the end, I was "not amused". See this within the context of Welcome Home, Soldier Boys, Brewster McCloud, Hail, The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, The Gypsy Moths, The Great White Hope, Easy Rider and many more from a time when movies were not made for mental midgets.

Robert Blake is cute as a button in this film! He's sexy with that ever-present unlit cigarette either dangling from his lips or being held in his hand. His wit is charming, too! In one scene, he and Elliott Gould's characters are undercover in a gay bar and they decide they'd better dance together so as to not blow their cover; after a few moments of slow dancing Robert quips something about "hey, I think I'm starting to like this..."! Cute movie with a lot of action.

This 1974 starts off well with a [good] scene in the dentist's office, but it's downhill from there. The theme seems to be that the system doesn't work, but the film's makers don't carry it off very well. Allen Garfield is good as the bad guy, but you have to be a devoted Elliot Gould or Robert Blake fan in order to enjoy the film.