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Seasoned cop Ed Haskell (John Kirkpatric) has a new partner, young
hothead Bob Streeker (Frank Bannon), and at first, the two of them don't
get along too well, basically because Streeker is a tad inexperienced and
sometimes even fucks up arrests. On their partols, Haskell and Streeker
encounter everything from small frye - like a notorious peeping tom (Bobby
Angelle) - to an actual robber and murderer who gets bailed out of jail
only to commit more crimes, which leads to an extended carchase during
which Haskell and Streeker drive the baddie off the streets and over some
cliffs to his death. Haskell really starts to accept Streeker though when
Streeker saves Haskell during a shootout - and kills his first man in the
process. However, the real threat to the city Haskell and Streeker and
every other cop in town are after is the Rapist (Con Covert), a guy
who rapes and kills women in a public park during daytime, and somehow
always manages to slip through the police's dragnet. Police even try to
bait him with a female police officer (Rosie Stone), and the Rapist
swallows the bait alright - but manages to kill the female cop without
anyone catching him. The Rapist, you know, has an ingenious disguise: He
dresses up as a woman and this way (quite obviously) never fits the
police's profile of him. Eventually, Haskell and Streeker find the
latest victim of the Rapist, right after she was murdered, and find the
rapist in women's cloths only a few hundred feet away. The
"lady" immediately looks suspicious to Streeker, but Haskell
sends him away to send for backup, while he watches whom he considers no
more than a witness: Bad luck, because the Rapist is quick to pull a knife
and stab him to death. Streeker returns just then, too late to save his
partner, but soon enough to shoot the Rapist dead - repeatedly and with
precision. An odd and disjointed little film: After a gruesome
murder committed by a transvestite, it starts out as your typical buddy
movie with police procedural undercurrents - until after a while the story
is interrupted by a sex scene, then another one, and so on. And some of
the sex scenes, while none of them would consider as hardcore, and while
some are simulated, in others the performers very obviously have actual
sex. But it's not only thanks to the many many sex scenes that the
narrative buildup soon gets lost, it's also the myriard of subplots that
ruin every suspense there is. Plus, the Rapist in women's cloths looks
entirely unconvincing - nobody with half an eye could mistake him for a
woman, heck, I have seen bearded men looking more convincing in women's
cloths than him. Anyways, to simply call the film a trainwreck would be
wrong, because quite frankly, it's fun, at least to trashmovie
afficionados like myself. That, and most of the women in this film are
pretty hot (in a 1970's sort of way), get naked and have sex ...
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