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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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Title: The Choirboys (1977)
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Calvin Motts
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'Father' Sartino
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Sam Lyles
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Harold Bloomguard
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Scuzzi
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Sabrina
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Tammy
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Carolina Moon
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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.
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Don't look for these guys in church.Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
23 December 1977 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Bande de flics See more »Filming Locations:
Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
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$6,500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Music by George Gershwin
Lyric by Ira Gershwin
Published by New World/Harms
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Actor James Woods has the distinction of appearing in three filmed adaptations made from novels by author Joseph Wambaugh. The movies are The Choirboys, The Black Marble and The Onion Field. See more »Soundtracks
"I've Got a Crush on You"Music by George Gershwin
Lyric by Ira Gershwin
Published by New World/Harms
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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.