Badge 373 [SEP] narrative location
's "Saturday Night Live" character "Roseanne Roseannadanna", plays herself in a cameo appearance.
- Dominican salsa bandleader Johnny Pachero & his Orchestra makes a cameo appearance in the opening nightclub sequence.
Production.
"Badge 373" was shot on location on the streets of New York City. At one point, in what film writer Jeff Stafford calls a deliberate attempt to recall the car-chase scene from "The French Connection", which was also based on the exploits of Eddie Egan, Robert Duvall
The lack of any originality in the characterization is a little embarrasing: 'Badge 373' seems to think it's different because Duvall insults Puerto Ricans, whereas Hackman insulted Negroes." John Gillett of "The Monthly Film Bulletin" compared "Badge 373" unfavorably to "Dirty Harry" in that "unlike Siegel, Koch fails to put his hero's activities in any kind of perspective; and even though the violence is kept in check, its ambiguities leave a somewhat repellent taste. All in all, another deeply divided