Oldie but goodie

Watched Sharky's Machine again.
I saw it first-run in 1981, when I was freshly back in California after college.
Amazingly, it still holds up well, even after all these years. A lot of the other cop movies of the same era didn't.
Burt Reynolds looked very good (he hasn't aged well; too much surgery trying not to), and the rest of the cast were also very good. Vittorio Gassman played a great bad guy and Henry Silva played his evil brother, one of the scariest bad guys until Javier Bardem did the psycho in No Country For Old Men. But the good guys, all veterans of many movies, did just as well: Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, and Bernie Casey.
The capper, of course, was the ever-luscious Rachel Ward. She's been in many things since, including the Thorn Birds, but this is one of her first, and one of her best.

Rico says he still desires her, twenty seven years later...