Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quandary is back. This time, the controversy surrounds Daniel Petrie's Fort Apache, the Bronx, a movie which purports to show what the South Bronx is really like, through the experiences of the officers of the borough's 41st precinct. Art and social responsibility clash once again. Community activists in the South Bronx have declared the film racist while its makers defend its accuracy in depicting the area from a cop's point of view...
Edwina Z. Worsley Fort Lauderdale...
...FORT APACHE, THE BRONX Directed by Daniel Petrie Screenplay by Heywood Gould
...Fort Apache, The Bronx must be gratefully received, because it provides Newman with his first opportunity in years for a full-scale star turn. "Fort Apache" is the 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...
...mainly it is Newman, now 56, who gives Fort Apache its modest distinction. From Somebody Up There Likes Me onward, there has been a main line to his best performances, a certain inarticulate striving toward decency on the part of men who may not be the smartest guys in the world, but who have discovered their better natures through the play of instincts. This film marks a return to that line...