In Phoenix, the alcoholic and mediocre detective Ben Shockley is assigned by the Chief Commissary Blakelock to bring the witness Gus Mally from Las Vegas for a minor trial. Shockley travels to Vegas and finds that Gus Malley is an aggressive and intelligent prostitute with college degree and she tells him that the odds are against her showing up in court. Shockley learns that she will actually testify against a powerful mobster and the mafia is chasing them trying to kill them both. He calls Blakelock and request a police escort from Phoenix to protect them. But soon he discovers that someone is betraying him in the police department. Now, Shockley and Malley hijack a bus and Shockley welds thick steel plates and transforms the cabin in an armored bus trying to reach the Forum. But they will need to drive through a gauntlet of police officers armed with heavy weapons.
Release Date: 21 December 1977Runtime: 109 min
Stars:
- Bill McKinney
- Carole Cook
- Carver Barnes
- Clint Eastwood
- Dan Vadis
- Doug McGrath
- Jeff Morris
- Mara Corday
- Michael Cavanaugh
- Pat Hingle
- Robert Barrett
- Roy Jenson
- Samantha Doane
- Sondra Locke
- William Prince
Director: Clint Eastwood
