Baretta (TV Series) The Coppelli Oath (1975) User Reviews

When a cop kills an innocent boy

[searchanddestroy-1 · 19 January 2016]

During a shootout between him and some hoods, Baretta kills an innocent bystander, a nineteen years old boy. So he decides to find out the reason why he shot this boy, why was he here, at night, in an alley. Did he work for a drug lord? But there also is some one who wants to get revenge of the boy's death: his brother, a young man too. When shooting in order to kill Baretta, he badly wounds one of this friends, a street petty ex hoodlum in his late fifties. The revenge boy character is very interesting, not shown as the evil man of the story, as he probably should be in another one. He is not a pusher working for a kingpin, as did his dead brother.

Unfortunately, the story is too much predictable. well directing by the prolific TV vet Don Medford.

The Coppelli Oath

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 24 February 2021]

Baretta feels remorse for shooting a small time drug dealer dead.

His younger brother Niki Coppelli vows revenge. He ends up wounding Billy accidentally while trying to get Baretta.

Sal Bodine the drug dealer who employs all the pushers decides he can use Bily to get back at Baretta.

Baretta wants to get through to Niki and not to end up like his brother.

It seemed to be a common feature in these old cop shows where the tough no nonsense cop suddenly acts like this is the first time he has killed someone. I remember Miami Vice did something similar several years after it had been going and blown away dozens of baddies.

Given Baretta was being shot at by the young hoodlum and three others joined him in shooting at Baretta. I think Baretta's action was reasonable.

I am not sure what protocol was like in those days. After shooting the hoodlum, did Baretta need to be waiting outside the hospital ward.

What was that about giving his personal information to Niki. Did Baretta not realize that Niki and his friends might want revenge.