| Hangup aka Super Dude | |
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| Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
| Written by | Lee Lazich Albert Maltz |
| Based on | The Face of Night by Bernard Brunner |
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| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Edited by | Chris Kaeselau |
| Music by | Tony Camillo |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hangup, also called Hang Up and later released under the name Super Dude, [1] is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars William Elliott and Marki Bey. [2] This was the last film directed by Hathaway. [3]
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The film falls in the blaxploitation subgenre of "vigilante group cleans up ghetto streets". [4] The film follows a black policeman seeking revenge on the man who got his girlfriend addicted to heroin. [5] The film was distributed by American International Pictures, one of the many films it targeted to the new youth market. [6] Josiah Howard states that the marketing "almost makes it look like a spoof of the genre." [3] Howard described the film as "low budget and flashy, but fast-moving and consistently entertaining." [3] Leonard Maltin wrote "Hathaway has done many fine films, but this, his last, isn't one." [7]
