Watch: Sharky’s Machine 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – Tom Sharky is a narcotics cop in Atlanta who’s demoted to vice after a botched bust. In the depths of this lowly division, while investigating a high-dollar prostitution ring, Sharky stumbles across a mob murder with government ties, and responds by assembling his downtrodden fellow investigators (Sharky’s “machine”) to find the leaders and bring them to justice before they kill off all his partners and witnesses, including Sharky himself..
Plot: Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky’s new ‘machine’ gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
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Re-edited down to 90 minutes this would be a far superior film …..
“Sharky’s Machine” is a very frustrating film to watch. On one hand you have a compelling storyline, good acting by an intriguing cast, and tough action. Unfortunately the bursts of violence are strung together by some of the most tedious sequences ever. The surveillance of Rachael Ward goes on and on until it becomes nothing but a damn annoyance, and there are numerous other scenes that could have been trimmed or eliminated. If “Sharky’s Machine” were re-edited down to 90 minutes it would be a far superior film. I realize this is never going to happen, so I suggest living with the fast forward button and doing your own re-editing. – MERK
What’s he auditing for, a job at Benihana’s?
***SPOIERS*** Atlanta crime auctioneer with Burt Reynolds,Sgt. Sharky, and his tough and well oiled “Sharky’s Machine” Let. Frisco, Charles Durning, and officers Papa & Arch, Brian Keith & Berney Casey, breaking up the Atlanta crime Syndicate who’s on the verge of putting “Their Man” in the Geroria Governor’s State House.Busted after messing up a major drug police sting operation, with the drug dealer and a number of innocent pedestrians shot and killed, Sgt. Sharky was transfered into vice. Busting hookers johns and perverts Sgt. Sharky finds a list of call girls in the wallet of a top Atlanta pimp and after bugging one of the call girls apartment it turns out that she’s having Don Hotchkins, Earl Holliman, a candidate for governor as a regular costumer.
As Sharky starts to investigate this strange arraignment he finds out that the good family man, married with five children, Hotchkins is also on the payroll of Vittorio “Victor” Gassman the mob “Godfather” of Atlanta.The high-price call-girl Dominoe, Rachel Ward,who’s involved with Hotchkins is tired of being a hooker and want’s to leave Victor’s stable of call-girls and live with Hotchkins as his live-in mistress after he gets elected governor of Georgia, which is already a forgone conclusion, but their’s only one slight hitch; will Victor let go of her.
Tangling with the Gassman Syndicate the corrupt Atlanta police and city officials, as well as the local Chinese mob, Sgt. Sharky ends up losing most of his men, including two of his fingers, as he brings down the Gassman Mafia in a final shoot-out with the his Mobsters at the famous Atlanta Peachtree Plaza Hotel’s.
Statueques and beautiful Rachel Ward as Dominoe is thought to have been murdered by Gassman’s drugged-out hit-man Billy Score,Henry Silva,who blew her face off with a shot gun but in reality it turned out that he really killed Dominoe’s call-girl room-mate Tiffany, Aarika Wells, with Dominoe away in the country.
Sharky, who was in love with Dominoe from afar, found out the truth about her being alive and to the surprise and shock of mob kingpin Victor Gassman is going to use her, by getting Dominoe to testify against him, to put Gassman and his mob away for good but the cunning and vicious Victor wasn’t going to go willingly and let Sharky know it sooner then he thought.
Blood spattering shootout at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in the films final sequence with Shark’y Machine having it out with the almost indestructible junkie hit-man Billy Score. Shooting it out on the hotel stairway both Billy Score and Sharky’s machine member Arch come face to face with Billy’s drug induced invincibility clashing with Arch’s Zen reality alerting philosophy in what can best be said to be a battle of two cultures: West and East.
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min)
Budget 17500000
Revenue 35610100
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Burt Reynolds
Writer William Diehl, Gerald Di Pego
Actors Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Vittorio Gassman
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1, 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints)
Camera Panaflex Cameras and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji A 250T 8518)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm, 70 mm (blow-up)