Badge 373

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This special limited edition J-card MediaBook slipcase (designed by Tom Ralston) is limited to 3,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Note: this release is available to be purchased on its own, or in the following bundle:

• Limited Edition Slipcase + This Is Cinématographe: A Journal of American Cinema - Winter 2026. Limited to 300 units.

Taking its name from the Lumière Brothers invention of the same name, Cinématographe is a new sub-label from Vinegar Syndrome that seeks to fill gaps in the canon of American cinema. Offering a mix of auteur driven studio films produced during the New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and 70s all the way through the indie boom of the 1980s and 90s, Cinématographe will explore the wide breadth of American moviemaking, spanning numerous genres and scales of production. Curated and produced by Vinegar Syndrome's Justin LaLiberty, each limited edition release will be housed in a specially designed, cloth-bound, media book with embossed foil titles and custom molded disc trays accompanied by a slipcase featuring newly commissioned art and an individually numbered J-card.

Following the death of his partner, brash NYPD cop Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall, The Godfather) swears vengeance, going on a violent quest through the streets of 1970s New York City to find his assailants. His methods prove so hostile, and racist, that he is forced to resign from the police, rendering him a vigilante hellbent on justice. Ryan’s pursuit of take-no-prisoners fury puts him in the crosshairs of drug kingpins and revolutionaries, not to mention the very department that he was once a part of. 

Inspired by real life NYPD detective Eddie Egan, who was also the inspiration for William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) and its non-fiction source, Badge 373 is a much more raw portrayal of inner city violence and New York at a point of transition going into the mid-1970s. Long living in the shadow of Friedkin’s film, as well as other more popular New York City set cop films of the era (including the same year’s Serpico, by Sidney Lumet), Badge 373 is a vital time capsule of old New York, anchored by a fiery performance from Robert Duvall and energetic direction from noted New Hollywood producer Howard W. Koch (A New Leaf). Cinématographe is proud to present this long underseen entry in 70s crime cinema in a brand new 4K restoration from its original camera negative.

directed by: Howard W. Koch
starring: Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan
1973 / 116 min / 1.85:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
• New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative with original mono theatrical soundtrack
• New audio commentary by film historian Steve Mitchell
• A Kernel of Truth - a new video interview with retired NYPD detective Randy Jurgensen, friend of Eddie Egan and technical advisor on the film
• Police Film Protection - a new video conversation between Jason Bailey, author of Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It, and Cinématographe's Justin LaLiberty
• Craftsman Kingmaker: Howard W. Koch and the Art of Getting It Done - a new video essay by Daniel Kremer
• New text essays by Mark Asch, author of New York Movies; film critics Paul Corupe and A.S. Hamrah; and Cinématographe's Justin LaLiberty
• English SDH subtitles