--- title: 'Busting (1974)' type: 'film' director: 'Peter Hyams' released: '1974-02-27' runtime_minutes: 92 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/busting-1974' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071259/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Busting (1974) 1974 · R · 92 min · Drama, Comedy, Crime · United States ## Synopsis Busting is a 1974 American buddy cop film, directed by Peter Hyams in his theatrical directorial debut, starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as police detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The film was the main inspiration for the cop series Starsky & Hutch, which premiered in 1975 and, like this film, also featured Antonio Fargas. ## Credits - **Director:** [Peter Hyams](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-hyams) - **Screenplay:** [Peter Hyams](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-hyams) - **Original Music Composer:** [Billy Goldenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-goldenberg) - **Producer:** [Robert Chartoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-chartoff), [Irwin Winkler](https://cinepixo.com/people/irwin-winkler) - **Director of Photography:** [Earl Rath](https://cinepixo.com/people/earl-rath) - **Editor:** [James Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-mitchell) ## Cast - [Michael Lerner](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-lerner) - [Sid Haig](https://cinepixo.com/people/sid-haig) - [Allen Garfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/allen-garfield) - [Cornelia Sharpe](https://cinepixo.com/people/cornelia-sharpe) - [William Sylvester](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-sylvester) - [Margo Winkler](https://cinepixo.com/people/margo-winkler) - [Elliott Gould](https://cinepixo.com/people/elliott-gould) - [Antonio Fargas](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonio-fargas) - [John Lawrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-lawrence) - [Robert Blake](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-blake) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/busting-1974 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1758692); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.