The New Centurions (1972) ( Precinct 45: Los Angeles Police )

The New Centurions (1972) (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Precinct 45: Los Angeles Police
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1972 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Fleischer

Written By:
Stirling Silliphant
Joseph Wambaugh

Actors:
George C. Scott ..... Kilvinski
Stacy Keach ..... Roy Fehler
Jane Alexander ..... Dorothy Fehler
Scott Wilson ..... Gus
Rosalind Cash ..... Lorrie
Erik Estrada ..... Sergio
Clifton James ..... Whitey
Richard E. Kalk ..... Milton (as Richard Kalk)
James Sikking ..... Sergeant Anders
Beverly Hope Atkinson ..... Alice
Mittie Lawrence ..... Gloria
Isabel Sanford ..... Wilma
Carol Speed ..... Martha
Tracee Lyles ..... Helen
Burke Byrnes ..... Phillips

Synopsis:

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, the story is the old 'B'-movie police story concerning a rookie cop being shown the ropes by a kindly and wizened old veteran. Roy (Stacy Keach) is the young patrolman introduced into the ways of Los Angeles street life by Kilvinsky (George C. Scott), the philosophical old pro. Kilvinsky is just short of retirement and wants to educate Roy to succeed him when he leaves. Roy, however, is on the edge because of a recent divorce, and it takes many speeches by Kilvinsky and the love and affection from his new black girlfriend Lorrie (Rosalind Cash) to keep from going over the deep end.

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