McQ Torrent

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McQ Torrent
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Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
I was happy I&#39;d had a particularly busy week, and decided to &quot;veg-out&quot; for a while early Friday afternoon. As a result, noticed this being run on AMC at a time I normally wouldn&#39;t have watched.<br/><br/>For some reason, this is one of the Duke&#39;s film which I&#39;d missed earlier, and had never taped or rented. (It also reminded me of how infrequently one saw him on-screen in contemporary, civilian attire.)<br/><br/>One of his later films, not many years before his illness and death, he seemed surprisingly spry and energetic at age 67. And the story was interesting (from the start to the end) and gripping, and the remaining actors well-cast and excellent.<br/><br/>With John Wayne now gone for more than 30 years, it&#39;s particularly nostalgic and enjoyable to watch one of his movies you haven&#39;t seen before.<br/><br/>This may not quite be a 10* flick, if one were rating in a contemporary fashion. But for the above reasons, I enjoyed it at this level today.
I&#39;ve always felt that John Wayne did his two police films McQ and Brannigan for a combination of reasons. Some of his last westerns before these like The Train Robbers and Cahill were really not up to standard and didn&#39;t get the reception at the box office Wayne films could usually expect. I also think those rugged western locations were becoming a problem healthwise. And of course Wayne was bowing to the public&#39;s new taste in heroes.<br/><br/>In McQ Wayne is investigating the death of his partner, the way Humphrey Bogart investigated the shooting death of Jerome Cowan in the Maltese Falcon. He has to go private to do it, he actually resigns from the Seattle PD and gets a private license, courtesy of a friend, David Huddleston. The investigation leads him to some surprising and not welcome conclusions.<br/><br/>John Wayne is always the great symbol of law and order and at first glance you would think this might not be a role for him, investigating crooked cops. But when you think about it in films like Tall in the Saddle and Rio Lobo he dealt with crooked sheriffs in the usual Wayne manner. In fact the whole point of Rio Lobo is Wayne putting his whole life on hold to find a couple of guys who betrayed him and their country during the Civil War. So McQ is definitely in line with both of those films.<br/><br/>In the supporting cast my favorite is Al Lettieri the drug kingpin of Seattle. Lettieri&#39;s death a few years after this film was a great loss to cinema. During the first half of the Seventies, ever since playing Virgil Sollozzo in The Godfather, Lettieri created some really outstanding villains and Manny Santiago here is one of them.<br/><br/>The ending will surprise you and its more Maltese Falcon than you would think.

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