The Stone Killer

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• Movie Goof (revealing mistake): SPOILER: When Lawrence and his men burst into the meeting room and begin machine-gunning the assembled dons, as Mossman and the don next to him fall dead, the same shot of Vechetti getting riddled with bullets and falling down can be seen next to them just prior to the single shot of him getting shot. Also, though we see at least four consecutive shots of different dons getting shot, four men with automatic weapons shooting at the same time and direction would surely mean all the dons would have been hit around the same time.
• Movie Goof (boom mic visible): (At 26:55) Immediately after the guy in the brown suit is contacted by the motorcycle cop at LAX, Charles Bronson is talking to his boss. During this exchange, just after the solo shot of the boss, the shadow of the boom mic is seen between the two mens heads at the ceiling line. The shadow moves from right to left and disappears
• The French title for this movie Le Cercle Noir translates literally into the English language as The Black Circle. French director crime films auteur Jean-Pierre Melville once made a French gangster movie called Le cercle rouge (1970) (The Red Circle) which was made and released just a few years prior to this picture.
• The Derek Torry name of the central detective character from John Gardner (VIII)'s source novel A Complete State of Death was changed to Lou Torrey for this movie. The book had a sequel also featuring Torry published in 1974 and entitled The Corner Men but this novel has never been filmed.