Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups of immigrant criminals are unusual. The Colombian cocaine dealers, sent to the U.S. as operatives in the drug trade, work out of South Florida and up the East Coast. Thus far they have limited themselves to what they know best, coke, but officials fear that with their capital, highly developed organization and icy ferocity, they could easily expand their activities...
Similarly, although those with a good understanding of Colombian history could infer that Marquewz was writing about his native land, the author provided scant clues to the location of mythical Macondo...
...blandness has its advantages. Norris is seldom off-putting. In Code of Silence, an exceptionally deft movie of its kind, Director Andy Davis has provided a perfect schematic vehicle: a righteous, nice-looking automaton is caught in a lot of crossfire. There are rotten Italian gangsters, rotten Colombian gangsters and rotten fellow police officers. As Sergeant Eddie Cusak, Norris refuses to go along with the cover-up of a killing by a scruffy underling (Ralph Foody) and tries to mediate a gang war. He may be good, but he has no family and no girlfriend, and gets uncomfortable...
...plot gets rolling in a subtle fashion with the gory massacre of some Colombian drug dealers, a beautifully filmed sequence complete with coke, blood and dollar bills flying. When the Colombians get their revenge by kidnapping Diana Luna (Molly Hagan), the daughter of Italian mobster Tony Luna (Mike Genovese), Norris singlehandedly comes to the rescue...
...climax comes when Norris sets out to save the girl, who is hidden in a huge warehouse swarming with Colombian gangsters. Having alienated his colleagues with his individualism and pizzazz he sets out alone to save the world. That's not quite true. Norris has the help of the Police Prowler a remote control tank that would make Casper Weinberger seethe with jealousy. Even though he clls the Prowler another gun without a brain. Norris aces the machine to wreak havoc on lots of gangsters. It's almost like cheating but he succeeds in killing many, many men, while still...