This film is at its best when it shows Freddie Prinze and his five female associates getting into and removing makeup and costumes, their looks very different than their real selves. Prinze seems to be holding back attitude as an ex-con who is plotting a way of robbing the Chicago subway, acting far too clean-cut and not nearly with the suave of his TV sitcom character Chico. It's jarring because it is a complete opposite portrayal, and knowing what happened to him a year later, makes me question what was going through his head. What he lacks in charm he makes up for in charisma and charm, but a completely different image than what he had in other appearances I've seen him in.
Joanna Kerns, Christine Belford, Linda Skruggs and Brooke Mills are his lady associates, but of the supporting cast, Bob Hastings stands out as a blistered head of security for the Metro System. He seems confident at times that he's got Prince where he wants him, but they comes flustered so often his change in mood is a low key Edgar Kennedy slow burn, something he did very well for years as police Lieutenant turned mobster Burt Ramsey on "General Hospital". James Sloyan is fabulously slimy as an interloper who muscles in on Prinze's territory. Typical average TV movie thriller with light comic moments, but those fabulous Chicago elevated subway locales are terrifically gritty.
Joanna Kerns, Christine Belford, Linda Skruggs and Brooke Mills are his lady associates, but of the supporting cast, Bob Hastings stands out as a blistered head of security for the Metro System. He seems confident at times that he's got Prince where he wants him, but they comes flustered so often his change in mood is a low key Edgar Kennedy slow burn, something he did very well for years as police Lieutenant turned mobster Burt Ramsey on "General Hospital". James Sloyan is fabulously slimy as an interloper who muscles in on Prinze's territory. Typical average TV movie thriller with light comic moments, but those fabulous Chicago elevated subway locales are terrifically gritty.