Hickey & Boggs

Hickey & Boggs (1972)

They're not cool, slick heroes. They're worn, tough men, and that's why they're so dangerous.

Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | Al Hickey (Cosby) & Frank Boggs (Culp) are two jaded private investigators who get hired to find a missing woman and quickly find themselves submerged in a world of murder and untruths.

Date of release
1972-10-04
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (42)
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
Crime, Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller
Director
Robert Culp

Casting

Interesting facts

Hickey & Boggs is a 1972 American neo-noir crime film written by Walter Hill and directed by Robert Culp.

Production

The script was an original of Walter Hill's who sold it to John Calley of Warner Bros. Hill said he wrote it with Jason Robards and Strother Martin in mind. "It wasn't intentionally written for a black and a white actor", he said.

Calley sent the script to Bill Cosby, who agreed to star in the film if Robert Culp would direct. (Culp had only directed one feature before, a documentary on Operation Breadbasket; he also had directed an episode of I Spy, which starred both Culp and Cosby.) Culp agreed and the film was greenlit.

Culp said he raised and lost the budget three times in eight months.

The budget was revised to $1 million; Fouad Said agreed to provide half the money; the other half came from Film Guarantors, a film financing arm of Taft Broadcasting. When United Artists came in as distributors, Said was repaid. it was Said's first film as a producer.

Culp then rewrote Hill's script. Hill said the script changed "by about twenty percent – not in terms of characters but the plot. I did advise the people involved not to play around with the plot because I thought it was a delicate structure, and if you pushed it, pulled it and tugged on it, a lot of it would fall down. But I think the characters held up pretty well."

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