The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American dramatic thriller film produced and directed by Philip D'Antoni. It stars Roy Scheider as a crusading policeman who is the leader of The Seven-Ups, a squad of plainclothes officers who use dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry on charges leading to prison sentences of seven years or more upon prosecution, hence the name of the team.
D'Antoni took his sole directing credit on this film. He was earlier responsible for producing the gritty cop thriller Bullitt, followed by The French Connection, which won him the 1971 Academy Award for Best Picture. All three feature a memorable car chase sequence.
Several other people who worked on The French Connection were also involved in this film, such as Scheider, screenwriter and police technical advisor Sonny Grosso, composer Don Ellis, and stunt coordinator Bill Hickman. 20th Century Fox was again the distributor.
Buddy Manucci, played by Scheider, is a loose remake of the character of Buddy "Cloudy" Russo he played in The French Connection, a character who also used dirty tactics to capture his enemies, and who was also based on Sonny Grosso.
In the seventh hour
And creeping darkness in disguise
Beware of bullets, my gun will raise
The demons in my eyes
Turn the seventh eye and kill that bitch
´cause my handgun speaks a deadly language
Explode invader,
Hit the shattered flesh of fire
To cut the seven pieces from your bone
Right through the wire
You see the world is goin´ to hell
You bleed for me, I´ve got your heart
Burning the world and goin´ to hell
Alright
Turn the seventh eye and kill that bitch
´cause my handgun speaks a deadly language
You see the world is goin´ to hell
You bleed for me, I´ve got your heart
Burning the world and goin´ to hell
Turn the seventh eye and kill that bitch