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Favenin's bloody vengeance is solidly based on the standard "Rogue Cop" caper-maligned by the Department, the lonely and disgraced lawman corrects what the courts cannot. The old films implicitly applauded such vigilante tactics, but The Cop is far more ambiguous in its moral stance. It does not discount the failings of a system that allows criminals to prance defiantly through their civil rites. But it also indicts the kind of police who have created an environment about which Raymond Chandler once commented: "When you pass in beyond the lights of a precinct station you pass...
...talking with Michigan authorities and newsmen about his dealings with gangsters and cops in Detroit. He claimed that Ellenburg had been receiving bribes for years from mobsters to protect the numbers racket and from Burns himself to protect an abortion clinic. Burns also fingered Thomas Cochill, another former Detroit lawman whom Ellenburg had brought to Cleveland as his personal aide...
...Willie covered almost 500 miles on foot, through the Morongo Valley, past Surprise Springs and Deadman's Dry Lake, until he was finally cornered on Ruby Mountain. Earlier, he had shot the girl to keep her from getting caught. On the mountain, he challenged a sure-shooting lawman with an empty rifle, a gesture that amounted to suicide...
TRUE GRIT. At 62, John Wayne is still riding tall in the saddle. Playing a hard-drinking but softhearted lawman in this cornball western comedy, Wayne proves that his nickname, "The Duke," has never been more...
TRUE GRIT. At 62, John Wayne is still riding tall in the saddle. Playing a hard-drinking but softhearted lawman in this cornball western comedy, Wayne proves that his nickname, "The Duke," has never been more...