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5.2/10   604 votes
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Director:
Robert Aldrich
Writers:
Christopher Knopf (writer)
Joseph Wambaugh (novel)
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Release Date:
23 December 1977 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Don't look for these guys in church.
Plot:
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery. | add synopsis
User Comments:
A good start to a terrible finish more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Charles Durning ... Spermwhale Whalen

Louis Gossett Jr. ... Calvin Motts

Perry King ... Baxter Slate

Clyde Kusatsu ... Francis Tanaguchi

Stephen Macht ... Spencer Van Moot
Tim McIntire ... Roscoe Rules

Randy Quaid ... Dean Proust
Chuck Sacci ... 'Father' Sartino
Don Stroud ... Sam Lyles

James Woods ... Harold Bloomguard

Burt Young ... Scuzzi
Susan Batson ... Sabrina
Cheryl Smith ... Tammy
Claire Brennen ... Carolina Moon
Gene Chronopoulos ... Card player
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Additional Details

Runtime:
119 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1988) | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1978) | Netherlands:16 (original rating) | West Germany:18 (f) | France:-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Norway:18

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Roscoe Rules: [attempting reverse psychology on a female attempting to jump from a roof] Go ahead, Bitch. Jump!
[she jumps]
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) more
Soundtrack:
I've Got a Crush on You more

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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
A good start to a terrible finish, 15 December 2007
1/10
Author: Homer900 from United States

This was a lame attempt at adapting a great book about a group of cops and the toll their work takes on their humanity. The true humor, pathos and irony that was in the book is missing on the screen. We see the antics described by Wambaugh in the book on the screen, but we don't know why these celluloid cops act the way they do. It could have been a simple matter of a narrator or voice overs by the characters to give some insight into the psyche of these characters. Instead, we are left with the juvenile antics of a group of drunken cops prone to sexual deviance and a disregard for the public, without the public knowing why. Watched it once, I won't waste my time to watch it again.

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Wambaugh disgust with the project sniffintheglove
choirboys should have been a mini series neilbounce63
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