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Contrary to ad campaigns and criticism, the makers ofThe Seven-Ups, The Laughing Policeman and Magnum Force do not call for law-and-order. They don't, in fact, have enough time to espouse politics or ideology of any stripe. They're not even interested in plot or drama, only in speed and thump. Their stories are alibis for sensationalistic action, and they re-enact the most heinous crimes out of love for the box office. These films are really B pictures, camouflaged with a smear of realism, padded with car chases and gadgetry to hold their audiences...
Despite their crude attempts to throw potential detractors off-guard, Magnum Force's Ted Post and The Seven-Ups' Phil D'Antoni, as well as The Laughing Policeman's Stuart Rosenberg, are interested mainly in zapping their audiences. Force's liberal apologia count for naught when the director's only feeling is for carnage (a man's head getting shorn by a girder, or a pimp choking a whore with Draino). And The Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used...
...heated skirmish broke out yesterday in the Yard when an apparently mentally disturbed flautist struck a University policeman...
Golding said that when one policeman asked the flautist if he were going to leave the Yard, he responded by striking another officer in the face...
...flautist, described by one policeman as a "big man," was eventually subdued and handcuffed, and is now in the Cambridge Hospital, where Kenney says he is undergoing psychiatric tests...