A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Gauntlet

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

Robert Bookbinder
The Films of the Seventies
Secaucus, NJ, 1982

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Gauntlet

Jonathan Kirshner, "A Man's Got to Know His Limitations", The Cop Films from Nixon through Reagan, in: Lester D. Friedman and David Desser (eds.), Tough ain't enough, New Brunswick, 2018

Reviews

Dorothy Dean, The Gauntlet, in: Films in Review, vol. 29, 1978 pp. 116


Year: 1977
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0076070