Mod-Hickey and Boggs Reviews

After pairing together delightfully and successfully for the television series I Spy, Robert Culp and Bill Cosby tried the big screen for Hickey & Boggs. With Cosby top-billed and Culp behind the camera as well in front of it, Hickey & Boggs is very much a cinematic crime drama of its era mixing a nihilistic view of the world with its indifferent citizens, sadistic villains, and innocent human lives that aren’t worth a plug nickel with two laconic do-gooders wondering if risking their lives is really worth all the bullets, blood, and bruises for a few measly dollars. Hickey & Boggs doesn’t paint a very rosy picture of the human condition circa 1972, and its consistent downbeat tone kept it from finding much success with audiences of the time, too.

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