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BADGE 373, according to the credits, is "inspired by the exploits of Eddie Egan," the former New York cop whose fictionalized doings were also the basis for The French Connection. But inspired is not a word to be employed anywhere near this flat-footed flatfoot saga...
...point with an unusual demonstration. Glenn had been picked up in a bar during a gambling raid. If he had been guilty, he contended, he would most likely have run for it. His experience as a high school sprinter and halfback was all he needed to outdistance an ordinary flatfoot. "We'll see," said Judge Everett Dudley. Acting as starter himself, the judge presided over a 50-yard race between Glenn and Vernon James, the officer who had made the arrest. Glenn won the contest-and acquittal. Verdict: not guilty...
...unmarked patrol car cut off the Dodge's escape route; other officers convoyed the driver to the stationhouse. It was the 20th arrest in seven weeks for Sharon Mann, 23, a trained social worker who now packs a .38 revolver in her new role as an undercover flatfoot floozy...
LOOT. Black comedy has spawned black farce, and this is a saucy, irreverent, unremittingly amusing play that spews its lightly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers, marriage, the Roman Catholic Church and police brutality. As a birdseed-brained flatfoot from Scotland Yard, George Rose pilfers the show...
...sevenfold murderess of previous husbands, is precipitously wooing the bereaved widower. Into this den of agitated vipers steps Truscott (George Rose) of Scotland Yard. Disguised as an employee of the water board in order to bypass certain laws that confine the limits of police activity, Truscott is the eternal flatfoot. He has an infallible gift for minute circumstantial deduction, such as the source of burn stains on a wedding ring, but he is oblivious to a fact as stark and staring as a trussed-up corpse lying on a bed. Rose plays this ripe role with unflappable comic finesse...