The Seven-Ups: Re-edited In the Style of The French Connection

The late, great film editor Gerald B. Greenberg (The French Connection, The Taking of Pelham 123, Apocalypse Now, American History X), would often claim The Seven-Ups was one of his most challenging jobs, for the unusual reason he had to stretch the material. What should have been a crisp 90 minute story was mandated by 20th Century Fox to come in at an hour and 40 minutes. Greenberg, and his team, had to do the reverse of what is good film editing, turn tight 2 minute scenes into a slower moving 5-7 minute scenes to satisfy the studio's edict. I decided to re-claim the project for my one time mentor, and make The Seven-Ups move as he did with his work on The French Connection. Enjoy the ride!
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[@MrEab2010]

this film takes me back to the 70s, my teen years, a special time for me.

[@unc1589]

My old stomping grounds. Fordham rd. The Funeral parlor was 3 blocks from my house. Arthur Ave. Botanical Gardens. Mansion in Riverdale on Fieldstone Terrace . Westside Highway/Riverside Dr. Third avenue EL….. When we came out of the movies on time square it was like the whole world was talking about us. Can’t say how special we felt being true NYC kids. New York was the whole world to us. Everybody that lived more than 3 miles away was considered hillbillies. We were so cocky because everything was about us! Imagine watching Taxi Driver in a Times Square theater and then walking right into the film location. Godfather. French connection. Serpico. 7ups. Too many to name. You couldn’t tell us nothing. We thought we were better than everybody! Pre Giuliani NY. Before Disney. Rough and scrappy. Every single day growing up was like a movie. Man do I miss those days.

[@tonywilliams6584]

🥳&Me too!!! I was a"60's baby!&"NYC"was the best ever back then.." 👍🏾👍🏾 🗽"212"🗽💖✌🏾

[@craigemmett2425]

Don't forget Kojak baby. 🍭

[@waltereaton4420]

There's a gritty, authentic feel to this and other NYC cop/mob movies out of the 70's that isn't replicated in today's films. Thanks KZbin!

[@mariofilippi3539]

Glad to see this film on KZbin, thanks very much. My all -time favorite police movie with great NYC scenes from the 70's.

[@ergbudster3333]

This is great. Fantastic. Turned a good flick, one of my favorites, into a superb cop flick. Thank you Fez Belcher for cutting a riveting thriller.

[@TomRivieremusic]

One of the best movies still today.Great actors.

[@tonywilliams6584]

💯%🫡👍🏾👍🏾

[@martyconroy3786]

BTW, Sonny Grasso, the writer of this story, was the real name of Popeye Doyle's partner, played by Roy Scheider in The French Connection.

[@dionbaia288]

As was Randy Jurgensen, the other real cop and partner in here along with Eddie Egan aka Popeye Doyle, who is in the scene when they're hacking up the car looking for the H. Randy's was in a ton of Friedkin movies like Sorcerer, Cruising, etc

[@kevinvilmont6061]

Who was in tremors with Kevin Bacon

[@martyconroy3786]

@@kevinvilmont6061 Fred Ward

[@WZD10016]

Sonny Grasso also played the role of: FBI Agent Clyde Klein in The French Connection movie 🎦

[@timothydoherty5337]

Personally, I like this better than the French Connection... and the best car chase I've ever seen on film. IMHO there are only three top qualifiers for that... French Connection, Bullitt & The Seven Ups... Phillip D"Antoni was involved in all three of these productions as producer (also directed 7-Ups). Nothing like capturing old NYC onscreen.

[@harrydebastardeharris987]

Brilliant Movie from that era when New York was old,worn out and gritty but had style.Sidenote the driver in the car Schieder was chasing is the same driver McQueen was chasing in “Bullet”.

[@tonywilliams6584]

💯%🫡"212"👍🏾👍🏾

[@planetwarrior9980]

Yes, his name was Bill Hickman he was a Hollywood Stunt Driver and did the car chase/stunts in French Connection and played the FBI Agent Mulderig in the French Connection. He had a long vast career as a stunt driver and did some acting as well.

[@atlantisnewman1722]

Bill Hickman was also the driver in the movie Bullet with Steve Mcqueen

[@martyconroy3786]

He also drove the car in French Connection chase scene, they cut Gene Hackman in later. They also did that for real, never told NYPD, didn't stage any of it. He was the best stunt driver in Hollywood at the tjme.

[@markr.devereux3385]

BULLIT😂

[@Pastrychef90210]

@@martyconroy3786they did tell the NYPD. They just didn’t have any permits. William Friedkin told me these stories one night in Beverly Hills.

[@martyconroy3786]

@@Pastrychef90210 saw a documentary about Friedkin, said he was also in the car... they also filmed everything live time in Sorcerer, another movie with Roy Scheider

[@Pastrychef90210]

@@martyconroy3786 he was in the car filming as the other two camera operators were both married with kids. He never spoke much about Sorcerer but it is a masterpiece. People would tell him how great it was and he’d just say “thank you.” But if you talked about The French Connection or The Exorcist or even Killer Joe, he’d talk at length about it

[@wizerdjuice9589]

Got to watch the filming of the car chases in Manhattan while at work.

[@thefezbelchershow5443]

On the West Side. What street were you on?

[@wizerdjuice9589]

@@thefezbelchershow5443 if I remember correctly the area west of Columbus Circle and around 9,10,11th Aves. I worked mostly on 8th just south of CC at an old theater that was turned into an ABC TV studio and would walk to other ABC-TV facilities and Lincoln Center in the area.

[@okitocoinbox4703]

wonderful,wonderful,wonderfu.thanks so much...better,better,better...

[@thefezbelchershow5443]

Thank you. It was a labor of love.

[@leecaston]

great job. made it a fantastic pace. highly watchable.

[@thefezbelchershow5443]

Thanks so much. Clearly, you are a film connoisseur.

[@texasbluebonnet4303]

I love those antique cars, what style they had, and were so roomy to sit in front and back.

[@1persme1persme-it36]

and they steer like a noodle

[@unc1589]

@@1persme1persme-it36 😂 They did.

[@ElkoJohn]

Much obliged.

[@stringlarson1247]

Great work. Thank you.

[@peterarnone5465]

The most underrated mob movie of all time. New York. When it was a great city.

[@carlabroderick5508]

The thing cracks me up in this is the two guys who did the kidnappings are so classically handsome, in a “tough guy” way, they kind of stick out among the cast as though “everyone normal” until these two show up from a men’s catalogue.

[@imagographics5096]

Oh man, what a treat! Always loved that car chase up the UWS and Taconic.

[@markr.devereux3385]

Roy schieder turns in a top notch role. Hes king of 70s movie cops.

[@rekababa6671]

I wish I could have seen Chris Walken & Richard Lynch doing Shakespeare with those Brooklyn accents 😂

[@Hernal03]

Imagine both of them going back in time a few hundred years and performing Shakespeare with Brooklyn accents live at the original Globe Theatre! The They'd never have made it alive to the stage --- probably burned as Witches first! Not for having popped in out of thin air but because of their strange accents!

[@georgehenry76]

44:33 look at the cars take that turn into the oncoming traffic! Astonishing stunt driving and camera angle..

[@evm6177]

Yea I know, that shot sure got me too.. Amazing film making!

[@MeBeTheDB]

EXCELLENT CUTTING-! You made it tighter many times over. btw: I just subscribed to you for your excellent sense of story and pacing. D.A.

[@thefezbelchershow5443]

Thanks so much! If you get a chance, watch my 1990s NYPD film, The Bulls' Night Out. It's on the channel.

[@unc1589]

@@thefezbelchershow5443 Did you add music?

[@thefezbelchershow5443]

@@unc1589 Just in one scene, where Bruno is carrying the satchel of cash to Max Kalish. "I Gotcha" by Joe Tex.

[@t0manderson571]

I bought that red cargo van at 2:30 .

[@adrianlois6284]

Wuao! Qué película, muy buena tiene suspenso mafia acción y persecución en auto tipo Bullit y a parte trabaja el rubio que apareció en Harry el sucio, la primera y era el asesino, y otra el chofer que va con el rubio es el mismo que actua en la película Bullit es el chofer del Dodge charger en la persecución de Steve Mc Queen con su ford Mustang boss 1969. Excelente 👍

[@ivannikolic147]

Odlican Film za sva Vremena,dobra Prica ,odlicna Akcija sa ludim jurnjavama kolima i solidna pucacina ali u funkciji Price. Verovatno nije za mladje ali i medju njima su poznavaoci dobre triler tradicije. Glumci su svi do jednog profi i na visini,veoma uspelo vece i mnogo Hvala sto ste dali odlican FILM.

[@mahraz1]

Where is the other 30 minutes of the film??

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

I will watch later

[@bennockley]

Much Better, Than Bullitt, No double shifting

[@texasbluebonnet4303]

Bullet starring Steve McQueen was a good one, would like to see it again.

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

roy schnider = copy`s steve mcqueen !

[@None-zc5vg]

"Bullitt"

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

This should be good. I know absolutely nothing about film editing but I’ve seen both films.

[@axiomist4488]

You should do a re-edit of "Pelham 123". That's another one that took place back in the real N.Y.

[@JosephBrazzo-cw5fw]

Love this flick car chase. Bullit. French connection. Seen a hundred times real actors great dialogue.

[@SuperBeachbum74]

Saw this at movie theater, still waiting for refund !

[@jimmymac9843]

This was really, really interesting and a great effort, but I'm not sure. The thing of it is, because of the mandate for a longer picture, the editor built the entire movie around a slower pace. Now with these sections cut out, it feels choppy. I think if the original editor had his shorter running time, he'd have built the whole thing differently and made innumerable smaller choices to meet the running time, a few seconds here and there. Would have been more of a piece. I'm not putting down your work, just saying. I did a little TV editing in a class and, man, it was tough.

[@remko1238]

Now THAT’s a good movie… they didn’t need much to tell a strong story back then 🤛🏽

[@NUCLEAR154]

🎉😊Fun thanks

[@1LSWilliam]

Really tough, jagged action. I judge the reedit to be a fine success.

[@thefezbelchershow5443]

There you go! I'm glad there is one film connoisseur out there. Thanks a bunch.

[@ahmadalshaer3486]

فيلم رائع استمر صديقي ...❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

[@johnreed4306]

Same driver from Bullet. I'm pretty sure.

[@e.s.l.1083]

¿? Why do they call it a screen PLAY? its not shot continuous in sequence. (I don't know, that just occurred to me.

[@pressureworks]

The script that is written out is called the screenplay. Dummy.

[@FreshGrey-pm4vw]

so they added 10 minutes? ok. sounded like it was quite a bit more.

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

Did this appear in my KZbin because I watched "The New Centurions" yesterday?

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

Not often you hear someone called a lummox.

[@unc1589]

😂 My Grandfather used to call me that. Never knew what it meant.

[@anupambhattacharjee4458]

Great movie.Roy Scheider acted in many good movies.

[@None-zc5vg]

Scheider was trying hard here to do a Gene Hackman but he just wasn't charismatic enough.

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

Apparently 7-Ups and The French Connection had Super 8 format releases.

[@angelinalozada189]

Good Movie.

[@Nicokash392]

Good movie

[@davidmurphy619]

Spielberg would drool.. what a story .. I've got offers ...my first 33 I was Senate Finance Chairs nephew ...

[@carlsilverman754]

better car chase than Bullitt😮

[@nikosatsaves3141]

What do you mean edited?? Werent those two like twins? Saw both of them when i was visting Toronto in 1977.Went there the night before Elvis passed away.

[@onemat2000]

Not sure if I liked this edit. It feels shorter than what I remember.

[@TheGsutton]

It's about 30 minutes shorter

[@JoaoBatista-wt2ed]

Um ótimo filme viu . Parabéns gostei muito desse vídeo das policia da cidade dos Estados Unidos da América.👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍🚔🚔🙊🚓🚓🚓🚓👮👮👮👮👮🙇🙏🙌

[@yvesmoulart6752]

Extra

[@davidgray5776]

How about whom so ever the "Powers" might be, do a Directors cut of the movie to the meant to be 90 min. film....

[@davidandrews8963]

LOVE THIS MORE OF THE SAME PLEASE CHEERS DAVID ENGLAND 🇮🇹♥️🌈🙏😱

[@davidmurphy619]

That 38 chief was in my hands at 15. I invited the Rangemaster to my uncle Ringos cow camp on the ORO.. I hint there all tjw time and Dutch brouhht his new Belgian grade shotgun out on the wilds of Arizonas largest Cattle Combine . The old Greene Cattle Company . We worked for Charlie Greene and he sold out to the US Ambassador . Things upgraded. New fleets and mattresses and gas refers Motorola walkie talkies on the saddle bags and even a phone at headquarters Found a crashed plane on a forlorn mountain. Overdue 1946. Today o was playing bird dog as Sturdevant left his dogs home . He was wearing only his ankle snubby in a fast draw . He handed it to me and said for snakes go stir up a quail. So after hours we finally had one . In a tree ! I said shoot that SOB of a bitch Dutch ... He said unsporting scare it ...and she flew ! Both barrels and one little feather fell as the bird was fast approaching 100m at 30-40 mph. I drew across his face about 20 feet away and put one in its eyeball and he cooked it for.me . When Ringo cooled his horse he demanded dinner where's my wife and Dutch came out with the bird . Then he explained to the man who had killed more men face to face than anyone in friggin history ok??? What we had just done . Took me half century to figure out what that stare he gave me meant . I'm 69 I'm retired and I've never yet put a bullet in a human being .. I've shot off half.million rounds before i was 13...or so . My mentor Billy Stewart hi bore title 24 years Camp Parry Nationals . No scope .. Think about it . 1000yd no scope . No one's ever done it before or since . Which meant a truckload of 30:06 every summer when his truck pulled in the armory ... Gotta shoot this up quick and reload this 22 year old ammo Dave . So it meant sore shoulders to the young boys of Prescott Arizona . They remembered me on the ranch . I was out of the Marines and available ... They needed a gunman. The queens piano ..Russel's and Remingtons. Chippendale clawfoot. An armory second to none . Classic cowboy pieces ...up front . I purchased three guns . 3-6" pair of Garcia 357s and the pocket 25 . Winchester 94 and Winchester 10 hammer 12 pump prison shotgun 5 notches . It sat in Detective Marts squad car fully equipped and I had just attended a party in LA where detective Conterestelli had retired . She gave me the #1 German Shepherd AKC CDX showinner and said go have adventures .. At the sit down at the new JJJ Corp Ranch Larry Hendricks grabbed a Winchester and said cat on the roof . He was Game and Fish Hunter for New Mexico and my future boss as he said cat on the roof and jacked on a shell I said hold it and smiled ... That dog has found that wood pile he is doing a perimeter search right now on the roof . So we.peeked out the back porch I got hit in the eye by falling slob er and Larry said ...yer hired son

[@johnreed4306]

Hard to see any homeless people back then.

[@Hexon66]

a) It's not a documentary, b) Reagan hadn't boosted the homeless population yet.

[@unc1589]

They were mostly still on the Bowery. It was tough to be a homeless guy back then. They’d take your shoes. Plus, it wasn’t hard to hustle up rent money. You could get a room for $15 a week. You’d see drunks but they weren’t homeless.

[@None-zc5vg]

Reagan was just a puppet, a mouthpiece for the Republicans who wanted to wipe out public projects like housing to divert the money into their backers' coffers.

[@davidmurphy619]

Kissonger and Chase flew in from China Accords to my guns .. I'm the pro gunman on Arizonas largest ranch . Below is the story . It's true ...I have oil paintings as my grandfather personally photographed and oil painted Charlie Greenes Last Round Up. .. I threw out 20.000 35mm slides and kept a bunch of prints and the paintings grace my Phoenix mountaon park home

[@aaronstielstra6055]

Why?

[@bikefixer]

Just watched it. This is better. Faster paced. Maybe you should watch it.

[@aaronstielstra6055]

@@bikefixer both are stone cold 70s classics that require no meddling.

[@bikefixer]

@@aaronstielstra6055 I've watched both films dozens of times. They are the same in setting and subject, but their filmmaking styles are different. The French Connection is edited like a documentary, the Seven Ups is edited like a 1970's TV show (like Barnaby Jones or Cannon). That doesn't make it bad, it's just slower paced.

[@americanme3239]

😂😅😂😂

[@bisembert]

This film reminds of the days of the ?#it hole that was 70's New York, when everything was kicking off with very high murder and crime rate, (At the time the highest in the country) The five families running amok and numerous stolen car rings and Street gangs.

[@pressureworks]

Film as released is fine. Your edit ruins it.

[@plasticweapon]

uh, it was already in the style of the french connection...

[@bikefixer]

They may seem the same, but the editing styles are completely different. TFC is edited in "documentary style" (jump cuts, cross cutting, assembly cuts). Their pacing is very different. The Seven Ups is cut TV style. The best way to explain that is what is known as "shoe leather" scenes that give it a slower pace. Characters walking to destinations to have a dialogue scene instead of cutting directly from one dialogue scene to the next where the characters are in mid conversation. The Seven Ups is filled with shoe leather. It badly needed to cut all of those scenes of Roy Scheider walking for two minutes to have a five minute conversation with Tony LoBianco. In movies, pace is everything. This edit may not even go far enough to cut all the slow parts.

[@1persme1persme-it36]

@@bikefixer that is interesting thank you

[@sjalana1]

Nahhh that's a bad ending.

[@atbp828]

The background music at the start turns me off😢

[@CURVEDGLASS123]

Butchered for no reason.

[@twinsonic]

No need to butcher a classic. Damn millennials

[@bikefixer]

Instead of using stereotypes, you should watch the film. Nothing has been changed, it just has a better flow. And I've been watching this film for 50 years.

[@rjust2297]

Just by your name alone and I haven't started watching this yet the only thing that you could have done better with editing here is that they were all driving tiny little cars LOL. Shrine on My crazy diamond. Freaking talk to text never gets it right😂. Shine on My crazy diamonds. 🎉🇺🇲🎯🍒👍🦨🕵️