The Choirboys (1977)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. Director:Robert Aldrich |
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The Choirboys (1977)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. Director:Robert Aldrich |
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Spermwhale Whalen
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| Louis Gossett Jr. | ... |
Calvin Motts
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| Perry King | ... |
Baxter Slate
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| Clyde Kusatsu | ... |
Francis Tanaguchi
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Spencer Van Moot
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Tim McIntire | ... |
Roscoe Rules
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Dean Proust
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Chuck Sacci | ... |
'Father' Sartino
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| Don Stroud | ... |
Sam Lyles
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| James Woods | ... |
Harold Bloomguard
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| Burt Young | ... |
Scuzzi
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Susan Batson | ... |
Sabrina
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Cheryl Smith | ... |
Tammy
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Claire Brennen | ... |
Carolina Moon
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Gene Chronopoulos | ... |
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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.
I was a cop with about 10 years on the street when I read Wambaugh's book, and figured the movie would be terrible. I thought Altman and his crew caught both the flavor of the book and of life on the mean streets of LA dead on.
Maybe you had to have been there. I was a great Hill Street fan (still am), but it was sanitized for TV, and much less like the real thing because of needing to maintain a plot line. Life ain't like that, and neither was The Choir Boys.
Cop humor is hard to fathom for outsiders. Cops are, in fact, a minority group anthropologically, meeting all the same criteria. Life out there doesn't go from A to B to C. It's chaotic. So was the movie, a little. Good job of catching the feeling.