Hickey & Boggs 1972 123movies

Watch: Hickey & Boggs 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – Bill Cosby and Robert Culp (“I Spy”) are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted “film noir.” Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths..
Plot: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 1,234
	67% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 27 Popularity: 4.009 | TMDB

Reviews:

gritty modern noir
Fans of neo-noir should take note of Hickey & Boggs, made in 1972. It has a tart and tangy early script from the great Walter Hill and stars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp as two private dicks who are so down on their luck they can’t afford to pay their phone bill. The I-Spy duo give excellent performances Bill Cosby is great. This is my favorite Cosby film. Robert Culp, recently deceased,also directed, and he shows a very sure hand behind the camera.

I was quite surprised by the quality of this film after hearing about it for a number of years. Hickey & Boggs has a gritty downbeat vibe and it feels more desperate and low-rent and real than most private detective movies. A forgotten gem from the 70s.This is certainly one of my favorite films.

Surprisingly downbeat neo-noir
First time producer Fouad Said, a former cameraman who worked on a number of episodes of the “I Spy” TV series (1965-68), joined forces with erstwhile associates Bill Cosby and Robert Culp to make ‘Hickey & Boggs’, a crime thriller written by neophyte screenwriter (later director-producer) Walter Hill (’48 Hours’). Viewers expecting a feature-length episode of “I Spy” were in for a surprise. The TV series was cool and jaunty: “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” for hipsters. ‘Hickey & Boggs’ is grim, gritty, and downbeat with Cosby and Culp deliberately working against their glamorous TV star personae by playing Al Hickey and Frank Boggs as two world-weary, down-at-the-heels private investigators facing the moral wasteland of contemporary Los Angeles with a growing sense of powerlessness and despair. In its heyday (c.1940–1957), film noir typically espoused a bleak view of human nature and modern society but sometimes held out the possibility of the hero’s redemption through honor and heroism. By the early Seventies such romantic notions of individual agency seemed quaint if not deluded. Accordingly, the movie’s complicated plot, involving stolen money from a bank heist, vengeful mobsters, no-nonsense cops, and volatile revolutionaries, soon expands beyond the ability of the protagonists to control it, or even affect the situation to any discernible degree. After surviving an apocalyptic showdown, Hickey complains to Boggs: “Nobody came, nobody cares. It’s still not about anything.” Enfeebled by a world of intrigue that renders them mere adjuncts to the action, Hickey and Boggs are further emasculated in the war of the sexes. Neither is able to sustain a marriage, or even a healthy relationship. Hickey is to blame when his estranged wife, Nyona (Rosalind Cash) is murdered by the mob. Boggs, an alcoholic, frequents a bar where his ex- wife, Edith (Sheila Sullivan; Culp’s actual wife at the time), works as a stripper and taunts him from the stage while revealing her assets. Cynical and nihilistic in the extreme, ‘Hickey & Boggs’ did poor box office; even by the pessimistic standards of its time, it was a bummer. Also featured is James Woods in an early film role. VHS (2003) and DVD (2004).

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min), 1 hr 47 min (107 min) (Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Robert Culp
Writer Walter Hill
Actors Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Ta-Ronce Allen
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision R 200
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm