Mitchell

1975
R
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

2.8/10

YOUR RATING

A tough, slobby, honest cop tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar, even if it costs him his life.

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A tough, slobby, honest cop tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar, even if it costs him his life.A tough, slobby, honest cop tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar, even if it costs him his life.A tough, slobby, honest cop tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar, even if it costs him his life.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

2.8/10

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
This film achieved some renewed interest when it was shown on Season Five ofMystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)

Goofs
The first time we see the bulldozer in the chase sequence, the smoke is going into the exhaust.

Quotes
Mitchell:Hey, did you ever do any of that, you know, obscene photographs and all that?
Greta:Mmm hmm. When I needed the bread.
Mitchell:Where can I buy some?

Alternate versions
The most often seen version of this movie is the version as featured on _ "Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)" _ in 1993. This version was derived from a 1980s Lorimar TV print, which was then edited further by the MST3k producers (so they could wrap the host segments of the show around it). Because of this, several fairly important plot details in the original film are lost (making it seem more confusing than it actually is).

Connections
Featured inMystery Science Theater 3000: Mitchell(1993)

Soundtracks
Mitchell
Written byLarry Brown,Jerry Styner&Steve Hoffman
Performed byHoyt Axton

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Featured review

2/10

"Mitchell a lot of people don't like you...why is that?"

All i can say about this movie is "wow". Not that i'm blown away by it, but that i can't believe that joe don baker and linda evens were that hard up for cash to make this bowser.

The script is pretty flimsy, sometimes with 2 or 3 subplots going their own directions and then somehow overlapping, yet it doesn't quite work. There are so many "bad guys" yet for some reason you can never quite figure out who is crossing whom, and what each person's relation to each other is. Towards the end, it starts to become more apparent, but it's still not that exciting.

Then, Joe Don Baker as Mitchell really does a poor job...I don't think it's his fault..just that the character was not that likeable. I mean, a boozing slob of a cop is not exactly what you think of when you think of great detectives...

I agree that this movie is amusing if you watch the MST3K version of it...in fact it's one of my favorites, just because they jab Joe Don and this movie EVERY chance they can get, and I'd say that it's more than deserving of every single one.

Overall - one and a half out of ten stars.