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...best thing that can be said about Nighthawks is that it's short. Imagine Billy Dee Williams as Sergeant Fox and Sylvester Stallone as Sergeant DaSilva roaming the streets of the Bronx and combing Central Park, as decoy cops in a simpleminded parody of The Supercops and Serpico. We are to believe that the greatest service a policeman can do to stifle crime must be done while he wears a dress. As this dashing duo heroically traipses past Third Avenue, the scene shifts to London, where Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). The Villian, has just blown up a department store. "There...
...less of a role than when last seen in Star Trck--go to New York. Wulfgar is determined to redeem himself in the eyes of the International Underworld by committing spectacular and death-defving acts of terrorism, with full media coverage. While Wulfgar blows up Wall St., Fox and DaSilva are indoctrinated in "Counterterrorist techniques" by Hartmann (Nigel Davenport), an Interpol detective hot on Wulfgar's trail...
...reason that life isn't all roses is that South Africa has an oppressive racial policy-a bit of news that seems to have hit Co-Playwrights Howard DaSilva and Felix Leon with tardy impact. Inevitably, the odd interracial couple has a run-in with the local Nazi Afrikaner corps, blond and stolid beasts who are decently venal enough to be bought off. Dore Schary, the old Message Pilot of MGM, has directed The Zulu and the Zayda in a spirit of brotherhood that pretty effectively squelches any possible dramatic conflict...
...story is set in the early 1760s. Miss Goddard, an English girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...