In many respects, Michael Winner's 1973 hard-boiled cop movie, The Stone Killer contains pretty much all the obligatory tropes and memes associated with both the genre and the decade. Hippies, black militants, casual racism and of course disgruntled Vietnam veterans. In the absence of any no computers, Detective Lou Torrey (the ubiquitous Charles Bronson) favoured method of solving crimes is to beat, threaten and shoot everyone who may be a suspect. Obviously remembering to read people their Miranda rights is far too much like hard work. This is how cop movies were in the seventies and the public ate them up.