For my money, the best cop film ever made is Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City ('81) starring Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach and Bob Balaban.
Now it's 167 minutes long with no sex appeal and no gunplay, it's mostly a dirty-cop procedural-morality thing, so naturally it doesn't have the following that it deserves, but it's as good as it gets. I love the bum-bump...bum-bump that opens (and closes) the film. Witness:
About Me
- Chase Kahn
- Located in Allen, Texas/Dallas-Fort Worth area. Aspiring artist, full-time movie watcher. Daily blog, new and classic reviews, news feed.
Reviews
Giallo Horror Marathon
- The Black Cat [C-]
- The House with Laughing Windows [D]
- Deep Red [B]
- All the Colors of the Dark [B-]
- The Black Belly of the Tarantula [B-]
- The Cat O'Nine Tails [B-]
- A Lizard in a Woman's Skin [C+]
- Four Flies on Grey Velvet [B]
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [C]
- The Forbidden Photos of a lady Above Suspicion [B-]
- Blood and Black Lace [C]
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much [C+]
2nd WWII Marathon
Followers
Preston Sturges Retrospective
Epics
WWII Marathon
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- The Guns of Navarone (1961)
- Destination Tokyo (1943)
- The Train (1964)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- Thirty Seconds to Tokyo (1944)
- Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- Across the Pacific (1942)
- Sahara (1943)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- Where Eagles Dare (1968)
- Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Flying Leathernecks (1951)
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Frank Capra Marathon
- 'Meet John Doe' (1941)
- 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (1939)
- 'You Can't Take It With You' (1938)
- 'Lost Horizon' (1937)
- 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' (1936)
- 'Broadway Bill' (1934)
- 'The Bitter Tea of General Yen' (1933)
- 'American Madness' (1932)
- 'Forbidden' (1932)
- 'Platinum Blonde' (1931)
- 'The Miracle Woman' (1931)
- 'Dirigible' (1931)
- 'Rain or Shine' (1930)
- 'Ladies of Leisure' (1930)
- 'Flight' (1929)
Tim Burton Retrospective
Film Compilations
Posts
Blog Archive
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- WWII #3: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Classic Rewind: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
- WWII #2: Flying Leathernecks (1951)
- Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
- Short Review: MacGruber (2010)
- WW II #1: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- Short Rewinds: Junior Bonner (1972), Green Mansion...
- Review: Harry Brown (2010)
- Guess That Screenshot #2
- Classic Rewind: M (1931)
- Classic Rewind: Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- WWII Marathon
- Classic Rewind: Colorado Territory (1949)
- Guess That Screenshot #1
- Classic Rewind: Vivre sa vie (1962)
- Forbidden Planet Blu-ray
- Stanley Kubrick: Director's Chair (June 6-8)
- Classic Rewind: The Lovers (aka Les Amants) (1958)
- Cannes: Round-Up #6
- Classic Rewind: Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
- Cannes: Round-Up #5
- Cannes: Round-Up #4
- Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
- Review: The Secret in Their Eyes (2010)
- Cannes: Round-Up #3
- The Playlist Nation: Ridley Scott
- Cannes: Round-Up #2
- Classic Rewind: The Man From Laramie (1955)
- Cannes Round-Up #1
- Trailer: The Adjustment Bureau
- Cannes Film Festival: May 12-23
- The Six Musketeers?
- Vamp-Girl
- IGN's Top 25 Westerns
- Warriors Director's Cut
- Review: Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
- Assault of the Synths
- Review: Iron Man 2 (2010)
- The Playlist on Iron Man 2
- Classic Rewind: Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
- 20th Century Fox: "We've Got Nothing"
- The Death of Night
- Two New Posters
- Early Arnold
- Classic Rewind: The Long Goodbye (1973)
- Real Treat
- Jeff Wells vs. Saving Private Ryan
- Epic #6: The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
- Trailer: The American
- The More the Merrier
- Empty Numbers
- Classic Rewind: Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
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