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...articles were understandably short on names and specifics, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control somewhat hastily set up hearings in Hollywood to probe drug abuse. Even some of the entertainment world's most outspoken opponents of drugs, such as Cathy Lee Crosby and Edward Asner, refused to testify, calling the hearings a witch hunt...
...subcommittee this year had extended invitiations to actors Ed Asner and Jane Fonda, but both declined because of scheduling conflicts...
...soon, we're following Charlotte again as she slashes the throats of horny, innocent fools. Meanwhile, back at the "fort", the new play-by-the-book commander (Edward Asner) is giving Murphy a hard time but Murphy can't really be concerned with this since his new love, a Puerto-Rican nurse, has a dark secret and the local drug-dealer is up to no good and the whole neighborhood is being torn apart by riots. Gould orchestrates these dramatic situations with the skill of an armless conductor...
...EDWARD ASNER, though, as the tight-assed commander Connolly delivers the film's muddled message in Fort Apache's penultimate scene. Asner, a talented, politically active performer, plays this role with conviction and, like the film-makers, probably thought the movie would come off sounding like a humane plea to America to save the South Bronx. Asner's convictions and intentions make his scene with Newman--where Connolly tries to persuade Murphy not to leave the force--all the more ironic. "The precinct must be a house of law," Asner says passionately. "Damn it, there're people out there...
...headquarters of New York City's 41st precinct, which encompasses the toughest black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the South Bronx. Newman plays a patrolman who is stuck in grade largely because of an excess of street-bred compassion. When the hard-nosed new precinct commander, Edward Asner, decides to shape up the 41st by launching wholesale arrests to nab suspects in the murder of two policemen, the residents run riot. During one fracas, Newman sees a colleague hurl an innocent youth to his death. The rest of the film deals with Newman's agonizing over whether...