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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition Year: 1974 Rating: **** |
The very end quote of the final season FBI episode DEADLY AMBITION sums up what the viewer had already noticed, underlining the over-the-top proto-noir performance of Harvey Keitel, fresh from a MEAN STREETS breakthrough that was more critically acclaimed than mainstream enough to go beyond several television crime shows, including the pilot episode of KOJAK, where he plays a similar climbing crook, only leading a bank heist...
Here it's much more fun and involving as Keitel, after pulling off a rural armored car robbery and forcing lowly but lovely cook Claudia Jennings to be his sexy moll, climbs through the ranks of the bigwigs who hired him, including BULLITT co-star Don Gordon, leading to Robert Hooks as, strangely enough, a black mob boss who prefers golfing to chewing out Italian underlings...
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| Harvey Keitel and Robert Hooks on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
A golf course where Keitel as Eddie Kahn's WHITE HEAT finale takes place, being forced to surrender in a literal sand trap before the epilog where Efrem Zimbalist Jr. tells him: "You've seen too many gangster movies," which is perfect for Keitel, who was the James Cagney from the 1970's all the way to his 1992 career-turn in RESERVOIR DOGS, another post-heist situation: only this AMBITION taking place mostly in the frantic/running-around-town daylight...
Also featuring future HILL STREET BLUES cop James B. Sikking and SANTA CLAUS VS THE MARTIANS villain Vincent Beck as FBI agents... and a mustache-less Gerald McRaney helping the take-down of Keitel's character, who, not so bright but addictive and even somewhat aggressively endearing, could have been a recurring character: the firebrand climber actually helping THE FBI take down mob bosses by simply (and insanely) wanting to replace them.
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| Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel and Shelly Novak on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| James B. Sikking on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Gerald McRaney on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Gerald McRaney on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Vincent Beck on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Don Gordon and Claudia Jennings on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Robert Hooks and Don Gordon on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Claudia Jennings on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Claudia Jennings on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel and Claudia Jennings on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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| Harvey Keitel and Claudia Jennings on THE FBI: Deadly Ambition |
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Tom Selleck on THE FBI: The Confession
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| Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Tom Selleck on THE FBI: The Confession |
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