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The Chairman’s first acting job in seven years (since 1970’s DIRTY DINGUS MAGEE), CONTRACT ON CHERRY STREET is a tough, smart three-hour (with commercials) crime drama set on the filthy streets of New York.
A review by JAMES SOUTHALL. One of Jerry Goldsmith's most extraordinary achievements is his stunning score for Roman Polanski's Chinatown, and it's surprising that he has not returned to the genre particularly often; in reality, he would not score another film like it until the brilliant LA Confidential in 1997.
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Contract on Cherry Street is a 1977 American made-for-television crime film adaptation of a novel written by Phillip Rosenberg about a New York City police detective, produced by Frank Sinatra's production company Artanis for Columbia Pictures Television and starring Sinatra.
- Crime Drama Thriller
A television movie starring Frank Sinatra, Contract on Cherry Street is not known for much else. Except perhaps with score fans who know it for the music of Jerry Goldsmith. It's a score brooding in the suspenseful era of the time.
Nov 19, 1977 · With Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Jay Black, Verna Bloom. When his partner is killed, NYC detective Frank Hovannes and his organized-crime squad go against the mob, despite strong objections from his superiors and the legal-departmental restrictions that hinder him.
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
- Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
