The Death Squad (TV Movie 1974)
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- When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts.
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This crime drama is a real blast from the past, a return to those enjoyable TV Movies of yester. Robert Forster is a solid hero, and he is joined by a first-rate cast.
Yes That's when television was enjoyable.
I watched this movie back in the late 70s in El Salvador (I was a kid at that time)
Death squads were the modality during those years in my country. Unfortunately, those vigilante groups were brutal and targeting mostly, a lot of innocent people as a collateral.
Thank you for uploading this movie.
Very enjoyable, quality television. Not what it is now, low class reality shows.
Thanks again.💗🙏🙂
A time period when classic cop movies were at its best, during the golden age era of Hollywood. Thank you for this great T.V. Movie thriller! Johnny, Montréal, Canada 💕👍👋😎
Michelle Phillips is so beautiful. Mostly knew her as a singer (The Mamas And The Papas) but there are rare movies with her.
This movie reminds me of the excellent tv series in the 70's called Police Story! Very good movie too! 👍
Great producers and director and actors
Surprisingly gritty for a TV-movie. Robert Forster never gave a bad performance.
Mike Garth no
Omg! I didn't realise it was him. Liked him in everything I've seen him. RIP
Reminds me of the movie "Star Chamber" with Michael Douglas.
Those early 70's Dodge Coronet and Plymouth Satellite cop cars were tough cars...Same mill as the Monaco, Polara and Fury {440}, but smaller and lighter.
#Evo lution#
I bought a 1964 Dodge Polara 440 Highway Patrol Car at an auction.
Steal in demand by collectors.
In the early '70's, my Dad worked on the truck weigh scales, and he was given a Fury to drive, an ex cop car. I remember it had no handles in the back seat, we were embarrassed, my sister and I had to wait for him to open the doors for us! Did that car go and built like a tank!
I love Claude Akins, he always plays a good badass.
youre the only one then
I agree, Claude Akins was good in any role that he did, one of the best actors of his time!
@@bluevictory1010 i thinks always a nasty dispicable man in most films
He sure does!!!
I was a Jr. in High School and my daddy was Watch Comm. for Newton Div., L.A.P.D. glad he was off the beat by then. He went through the "Watts Riots" of the 60's that was enough. He retired out a Sgt.II, on a medical leave. Daddy was always a "straight arrow" of a peace officer. Peace on Earth. Goodwill to every living creature. Jeanie Hill-Wilcox.
It is still happening today death squad in the police and army hierarchy worldwide
Entertaining film. If you are reading the comments to see if you will view the movie, by all means do. Outstanding movie!
Few minutes in and Hell yeah! This is what we need to do!
It is always fun to see Robert Forester, pretty good film😊
Thanks for uploading this movie. Haven't seen it since it premiered on TV in 1974.
it was on vhs
I'm watching this movie here in RIVONIA Johannesburg South Africa.NICE old movie thanks.
Thanks Quentin
Similar to The star Chamber
Same scenario
Quentin Tarratino didn't make this
Why would you say thanks Quentin
@@marycooper8385 He pointed me to it. :)
Good upload Froggy; enjoyed the cast and plot. Dirty cops can be anywhere.
Gee, this plot looks familiar lol. Nice to see 1930's/40s actor Melvyn Douglas in this one. But...Michelle Phillips brought me here.
Man!
Did Melvin Douglas' character hit the nail on head regarding our old neighborhoods?!
"I look around my neighborhood now, and it makes me sicker than I am!
It used to be a decent neighborhood"
Now they all drive too fast, MAKE TOO DAMN MUCH NOISE, they all smoke way too much dope, and they all think somebody owes "em something.
That's how I would've said the same thing about my neighborhood almost 50 years later.
Killer music, too! 🤘😎👍
Dave Grusin!
Kick ass flick! Cheers!!
Ahhh, Magnum Force without the 44 Magnums or Dirty Harry.
Kk
Great movie thank you.🇬🇧👍
These movies are more believable then what is played now! They were way above their time. So i guess in 20 years people will say the same thing
Not a bad idea in today's world. But you can only dream. A good time for cop programs. I grew up watching them, good to relive the memories.
This type of squad still exists and it's called Cobra.
Interesting to see Michelle Phillips from the Ms&Ps.
@Slomofogo no
@Slomofogo That was Julianne Phillips from the "Sisters" show.
this was 1974?
i remember being at my grandmothers house in UTAH either 1978 or 1980 and seeing the beginning of this movie
and this movie was on VHS for sale in the 1990s and I bought a copy
probably still have it!!!
Oh my roller skating...how I miss it. Grew up with skates on more than normal shoes. Always a good first date.
given my first name is Bernard and the premise of this movie is spot on:
2 thumbs up!
Great movie!
Excellent Made-for-TV movie! Definitely owes something to Magnum Force, with Clint Eastwood, but that's OK.
The ending seems like bit incomplete. Few more scenes of what happens after this incident should have been shown. GOOD MOVIE.
This was how it used to be. It was left up to your imagination. Nowdays, people no longer have imagination.
I actually like the abrupt ending and the focus on Forster breaking down. Really haunting.
Very good 🎥👏
good film
This one is about like one of those Dirty Harry movies , the motorcycle cops were killing the bad guy's David Soul was one of the motorcycle cops , I forgot who was the ring leader of the group
Not a bad movie recognize a majority of the actors (males) and actresses(females)👌 way better than the ones now to me
Nice
Magnum Force without Dirty Harry Callahan.
The Magnum Force death squad officers were young, former special forces service men. Physicly top class, they didn't drink, they didn't smoke, they didn't fuck. They dedicate their whole life for the death squad brotherhood 100%
If they were guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, then yeah great.
Pimp not blindfolded, didn't comfirm negative heart beat.
Like 'Magnum Force" and some of the James Bond flicks, I sometimes question who the good guys are.
This sounds like the premise for the Hal Holbrook, Michael Douglas film The Star Chamber. Love this 70s content.
👍 Nice movie
Good movie!
We need a squad like this in the UK. Countless people get a suspended sentence or serve just a couple of years for sa, hurting children or running someone over whilst drunk out of their mind
Meet me at the roller rink and we'll discuss it
A classic performance from Claude Atkins 😂
Life imitates Art. As you are reading this comment a group of police officers are taking justice into their own hands and have KILLED someone who beat the system on a legal technicality.
Magnum force
Many Thanks
Just Men of Edgar Wallace.
Must be where they got STAR CHAMBER from! Good to see Major Don West again.
*Star Chamber* .Judge , jury , executioner .
Yeah ,, there was a rat in that one too,,, Michael Douglass. His old man would have kicked his ass,, if the movie was true.
Robert forster = coooooooooool!!!!!
Good movie and then half way through it goes back on itself
Yeah .. the tables turn when they come for you
funny, the song playing in the skate rink is called American Patrol.
You can understand why cops would resort to this when scum are let off. But at the same time there has to be law and order.
Justice is hard when friends turn out to be the worst of criminals.
Claude Aikens
he was like a mean Andy Griffith..
5:51 minutes.....that would become quite costly if, they only use it once....and always toss. Plus, that throw was very weak...someone will eventually find it, hopefully not some child or teenager, in for a swim!
Makes me wonder if, the U.S. is littered with partially loaded handguns...
They are siezed guns , used in former crimes. They are melted down anyway. And once the gun rusts , it doesnt fire . Bullets only last a little while under water, they corrode, and when the powder or primer gets wet, they dont work.
The US is littered with guns...full stop.
Claude Akins what is the tv show called were he drives a 18 wheeler?
Movin' On '74-76 he drove a rig, then BJ & Lobo
This movie reveals things that every day going on in powerful organization which established to save people rights and freedoms. No one can do anything about that. God bless us. Thanks for sharing.
Is this uncut?
There was a death squad in the seventies a bunch to rogue traffic cops 😂
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I just thought about it and I think it's called moving on
This is a good entertaining movie, but the chances of him finding that gun in that water, murky, current, etc, that is so unrealistic 😊😊
@Benoit Vanhees, these movies were done over 40 years ago, when attitudes were different. You don't see people drinking and smoking on TV in Europe? And you make comments about the women doing sexy dances, when European television is full of graphic sex and nudity. Talk about hypocrisy.
BBC had risque shows long before they were allowed in the United states...anyone remember Bennie Hill?
70’s stupid. But, charge to watch for scenery for the time.
Where can I sign up for that death squad? :))
Very abrupt ending, with much more left unsaid and to be done! Maybe, the thought of a sequel briefly passed through their minds but.....
They could have made another movie with all that was left hanging up in the air! Plus, the scene at the end was totally ambiguous...or, am I the only one thinking this way?
Similar to the cops in magnum force 😂
The cop 👮 should have known his house was bugged what a Wally.
Best line, 31:50;
"Well, it's kinda like when you're tryin' to get close to a broad, commissioner. You bring her to a dirty movie. Maybe you've never had that experience." "I believe I.....know what you mean."
Runner -up; "Speaking of action, will I see you tonight?"
Finding that gun in that murky water is almost impossible to believe
Every city needs a Death Squad.......Well controlled and disciplined of course!
I agree, and I cant stand a rat!
just watched tony forester on the movie, the city with mark hamill and jimmy dean
1:49 what kinda place is that? how were they able to get there so easily? only in the 1970s
Nev heard of this film before 😂
So basically this is magnum force without the big stars
I didn't get what happened at the end. So did the guy believe him? why did he tell him to drop the gun then?
Just takin out the trash . . . .
Kind of an abrupt ending
Yes, I remember those days very well. I was 31 in '74. I remember those vigilante groups then and even now, in some states they still have them. I also believe in "An Eye for an Eye." Sometimes u have to do what is necessary and set an example. To many loop holes in the law and the guilty go free. Good movie.(ls)
What about the innocent who then go to jail for something they didn't do or the police who kill innocent people either by accident or carelessness. They get off scot-free due to qualified immunity or when the police department investigates it's own and find 'we didn't do anything wrong'. No, there are no loopholes, only the same weapons that are there to protect both the guilty and the innocent, the reason the guilty go free is that the law wasn't followed, except the innocent go to jail and the guilty always go free. Be careful because the vigilantes you talk about may go for the police.
I thought that was William shatner for a moment
Shoe prints not marked out at shooting sight.
Good movie but did not care for the ending. But worth watching.
Good movie...the dude had no choice...
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Is there anyone else here from Quentin Terrentino?
This is a movie made during the modern Liberal/Leftist appeasement madness. Robert Forster and Claude Adkins were younger men in this movie.
The movie ended abruptly....would have loved to see a proper ending. An amazing movie...nevertheless. Thanks for the upload
yip a Magnum Force without the 44 Magnums RIPOFF made for TV But will give it a chance as loved magnum force but won't be as good with out Dirty Harry
Magnum Force was release in Dec. 1973...this TV movie aired on Jan. 8 1974. Hardly a ripoff as both films were in production at the same time. Now, a ripoff of Dirty Harry? Perhaps.
Max Cherrie
...........................STICK THAT WIDE SCREEN....................
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Andy Griffith?
Yeah, he just happens to be a diver and recovers the guns thrown into the harbor or whatever it was.
Benoit, correct pronunciation bin waah.
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I wonder if Earl was 'Granddad' in 'Hud'. His story of the two little girls was laid on thick; I know it happens but the scripting is too obvious.
yes its Melvyn Douglas...his films go back to the 1930s
Edward Karlson He Melvyn Douglas won an Oscar for ‘Hud’ and one for ‘Being There’. Very handsome in his youth.
31:52, "Like trying to get close to a broad... ", didn't work. The actor looks too decent.
Mark Goddard is even in this one.