McQ
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| McQ | |
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| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Produced by | Arthur Gardner Jules V. Levy |
| Written by | Lawrence Roman |
| Starring | John Wayne Eddie Albert Diana Muldaur Colleen Dewhurst Clu Gulager |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling Jr. |
| Editing by | William H. Ziegler (as William Ziegler) |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | February 6, 1974 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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McQ is a 1974 crime drama starring John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, and Colleen Dewhurst. The film made extensive use of actual Seattle locations. The beach scenes were filmed on the Pacific coast at Moclips.
Lieutenant Lon McQ (Wayne), a detective with the Seattle Police Department, investigates the murder of his longtime friend and partner. In so doing, he faces corruption in the police department related to confiscated illegal drugs, going so far as to tender his resignation in order to investigate the case privately.
Wayne had been passed over for the lead in Dirty Harry a few years prior to this film. The producers of that film chose Seattle as its location in an earlier version of the script; it was later changed to San Francisco when Clint Eastwood became connected with the project.
As McQ -- if his surname is an abbreviation of McQueen or another similar name, it is never explained -- Wayne is far from his usual Western or military element. He drives a fast Pontiac Firebird and deals with drug dealers and pimps.
The film features a young Roger E. Mosley as a police informer, Colleen Dewhurst as a cocaine addict and Al Lettieri (of "Godfather" fame) as the principal villain of the film, the drug king Santiago, in one of Lettieri's final roles.
One other noteworthy element of the film was its introduction of the MAC-10 submachine gun to the general public and creating a demand for it. [1]
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- ^ Larson, Erik (January 1993). "The Story of a Gun". The Atlantic Monthly. The Atlantic Monthly Group.
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