Monday, August 16, 2021

Lady Ice (1973)

An enjoyably trashy though complicated crime movie. Andy (Donald Sutherland) is an insurance investigator who employs unusual methods to get back stolen gems. This includes handcuffing a fat man to a toilet and posing as a mechanic at the garage owned by Booth (Patrick Magee) as he knows Booth's daughter Paula (Jennifer O'Neill) is a top jewel fence along with Eddie (Jon Cypher). The law in the form of Pierce (Robert Duvall) are also after the jewels and Booth (who has suspicious sources of income) but is prepared to let Andy do the running for now.

A game of cat and mouse between Andy and Paula, who knows he is not what he seems - at first she just thinks he is just another thief. This ends up with Andy getting a kicking from Eddie's goons. Eddie wants Andy silenced permanently but Paula talks him out of it especially she now knows his true purpose and has taken a bit of a shine to his cocky charms... 

A jewellery store is robbed in Chicago, the jewels end up in Eddie's possession in the Bahamas but Andy arranges for Eddie to be mugged and gets hold of the jewels. He uses them in a complicated scheme with the police to get Eddie and his thugs busted and get Paula off the hook...

A decent film though a little hard to follow at times. It is also rather superficial, most scenes look cool (there are lots of hot sports cars in it for example) but lack much energy or much purpose and the plot does meander a bit. Treat it like a trashy airport novel.