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...make up for their long night of denial, Spaniards are luxuriating in the arts, in a taste for consumer goods, in a relaxation of old mores. The new freedom has already spurred a renaissance in journalism and film. Burger Kings and jeans are in. Only two years ago, a policeman ordered a picture of Goya's Naked Maja removed from a bookstore window because it was "filth." Today the operative word is des-tape (uncovering)?as the stacks of gamy magazines on newsstands amply demonstrate...
...detectives. But they all seem very real, as opposed to the ridiculously larger-than-life heroes of most films. Realism suffuses the film and makes it credible. The cops are just men doing their jobs. In fact, the murdered inspector turns out to have been a brutal and incompetent policeman, a man who made countless enemies during his career. The iconoclastic Kolberg notes that he best remembered Inspector Nyman for teaching him how he cut off a pig's penis without making the animal squeal...
Here Widerberg begins to make his point. What is a policeman, after all? To some, he is an esteemed protector of law and order. To others, he is a licensed thug, doing society's dirty work to maintain the status quo. Of course, the truth lies somewhere between those two extremes, as Widerberg tries to show. One cannot assume that a cop is good solely because he is a cop. But this does not necessarily imply the opposite--the killer is not justified just because his target is evil hiding behind a facade of goodness. Some men are good, some...
...went over the wall with Ray was his cellmate, Earl Hill Jr., serving a life sentence for killing a policeman and raping his wife. But one of the mysteries of the break was that the other five apparently were little more than casual acquaintances of Ray's. They were all criminals with records of violence, and Ray normally kept apart from such convicts. Although Ray was thought to have been the first man up the ladder, prison officials believed that the leader of the group might have been Larry Hacker, 32, a man with a spider tatooed...
...Attempted breakout from a courthouse in St. Louis, Dec. 15, 1959, as he was about to go on trial for a $120 holdup. Ray pushed an escort deputy violently away, fled through the building until a policeman stopped him at gunpoint...