New Centurions

New Centurions
by Richard Fleischer

New Centurions
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Actor: George C. Scott, Jane Alexander, Rosalind Cash, Scott Wilson, Stacy Keach
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cinematographer: Ralph Woolsey
Producer: Henry Gellis
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Producer: Robert Chartoff
Writer: Joseph Wambaugh
Writer: Robert Towne
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 103 minutes
Release Date: 1994-06-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Gritty '70's Police Narrative
Summary: 5 Stars

The screenplay adapted from the Joseph Wambaugh novel of the same name brings us brilliant performances from Stacy Keach as an idealistic rookie paired with seasoned veteran LAPD cop George C. Scott. As I remember seeing this movie when I was in college, it left a lasting impression of the rigid & cynical examination of law and order in 1970's Los Angeles. If I remember correctly, "The New Centurions" inspired the television show "Police Story" and perhaps even Hill Street Blues - Season 1.

For me, a gritty, intense story very representative of its time.

Summary of New Centurions

Fans of the TV series Police Story and Hill Street Blues will dig this gritty 1972 drama based on Joseph Wambaugh's groundbreaking first novel. George C. Scott is in his element as Kilvinski, the philosophical 20-year veteran who mentors his new night shift partner, Roy (Stacy Keach), a "slick-sleeved" rookie. "Kilvinski's Law," he growls, "If a dude uses his fist, you use your stick. If he uses a stick you use your gun." Quincy Jones' Shaft-ian score gives the film a funky '70s vibe. Jane Alexander costars as Roy's neglected spouse, with Eric Estrada and Scott Wilson as fellow rookies, and Isabel "Weesie" Sanford as one of a vanful of prostitutes the partners roust in one of the few sequences played for laughs. Directed by Richard Fleischer (Compulsion) and written by Academy Award-winner Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night), The New Centurions deglamorizes the cop drama with gallows humor and sudden and shocking violence. It is a little dated, but in portraying the dangers and stresses that beat cops face everyday, The New Centurions is not, to quote Kilvinski, the same old "Hollywood crap." --Donald Liebenson

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