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8 August 1973 (USA) moreTagline:
Take away his badge and he'd top the Ten Most Wanted list! morePlot:
Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Dated 70s policer with new-fangled violence. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charles Bronson | ... | Lt. Lou Torrey |
 | Martin Balsam | ... | Alberto Vescari |
| Jack Colvin | ... | Lionel Henry Jumper |
 | Paul Koslo | ... | Alfred Langley |
| Norman Fell | ... | Lt. Les Daniels |
| David Sheiner | ... | Guido Lorenz |
| Stuart Margolin | ... | Lawrence |
| Ralph Waite | ... | Matthews |
| Alfred Ryder | ... | Tony Champion |
| Walter Burke | ... | J.D. |
 | Kelley Miles | ... | Geraldine Wexton |
| Eddie Firestone | ... | 'Bootlace' Armitage |
| Charles Tyner | ... | Police Psychiatrist |
| Byron Morrow | ... | Station Commander |
| Lisabeth Hush | ... | Helen |
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Australia:R | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1973) | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | France:U | West Germany:18 (nf) | Norway:15 (DVD release) (2009) | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM RestrictedFun Stuff
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Witness: [sees Matthews] You sure keep lousy company, man.Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: Hey, I filled your plate for you.
Witness: That's cool. Say Torrey, I still don't wanna marry your sister.
Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: [smiling] That breaks me up. You wanna see the slob she did marry.
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The Stone Killer is everything you would expect from the pairing of star Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner. A violent, woodenly acted and convoluted actioner in which plot developments are hammered home with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
The storyline has Bronson as a disgraced cop who leaves his job in New York and moves to quieter pastures on the Californian coast. He picks up a junkie wanted on a murder charge, but whilst escorting him to jail the junkie is killed in a Mob style hit. As Bronson investigates the hit - and other killings like it - he begins to uncover preparations for a planned Mob massacre, to be staged by some ex-Vietnam veteran mercenaries.
This film was rubbish enough back in 1973. But, to add to its problems, it now looks embarrassingly dated, with fuzzy sound (typical of the seventies), laughable costumes, and a horrendous music score from Roy Budd.