The New Centurions
Summary:
Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by director Richard Fleischer. The film has a bad-tasting us-versus-them mentality in its depiction of patrolmen-civilian interaction, and its hopeless atmosphere carries over into the bleak suicide of one of the principle characters. But behind its rancid veneer, ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
George C. Scott - (Sgt. Andy Kilvinski)
Stacy Keach - (Roy Fehler)
Jane Alexander - (Dorothy Fehler)
Scott Wilson - (Gus)
Rosalind Cash - (Lorrie)
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Review:
This early attempt at adapting the work of novelist Joseph Wambaugh doesn't break new ground for the cop-movie genre but it's a good, solid piece of work nonetheless. Stirling Silliphant's script takes an episodic approach, using personal storylines of officers Fehler and Kilvinsky as a narrative anchor while devoting most of its runnin... Continue >>
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