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The Nickel Ride is a 1974 American neo-noir crime film directed and produced by Robert Mulligan and starring Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, Victor French, Bo Hopkins, and John Hillerman. It is the debut film of screenwriter Eric Roth .
Jan 15, 1975 · The Nickel Ride: Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, Victor French, John Hillerman. In Los Angeles, a criminal begins to think that his accomplices want to get rid of him.
Nov 29, 2011 · The demise of a small-time Los Angeles crime boss is chronicled. He has been managing several warehouses of stolen goods, but is running out of space. Desperately needing more storage units, he does his best to secure some, but cannot get them fast enough to suit his boss who starts to believe that.
Apr 24, 2024 · The performances, the location shooting, and Jordan Cronenweth’s soft light cinematography give The Nickel Ride a quasi-documentary feel, an unnatural naturalism - with Miller in (almost) every scene, the film centres on Cooper’s POV and becomes a strangely subtle mix of the smog-heavy external with the paranoia-drenched internal. It’s ...
Set among the seedy underworld of downtown Los Angeles, "The Nickel Ride" is an intriguing and downbeat character study of somebody whose critical fault is that he tries to be everything for ...
- Crime, Drama
Small-time criminal Cooper manages several warehouses in Los Angeles for the mob to stash stolen goods. Known as “the key man” for the key chain he always keeps on his person that can unlock all the warehouses, Cooper is assigned by the local syndicate to negotiate a deal for a new warehouse.
In common with its hardboiled 1940s counterpart, The Nickel Ride offers a brooding excursion into America's criminal underworld in which its central protagonist, superbly portrayed by Jason Miller, is caught up in a hopeless one-man war against an insuperable and ruthless opponent.
