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New Centurions [VHS] by Richard Fleischer
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VHS Tape Cover InformationActor: George C. Scott, Jane Alexander, Rosalind Cash, Scott Wilson, Stacy Keach Director: Richard Fleischer Edition: VHS Tape Format: Color, NTSC Running Time: 111 minutes Release Date: 1994-06-24 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Publisher: Sony Pictures Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of New Centurions [VHS]Movie Review: Run-Of -the-Mill Summary: 3 StarsA run-of the-mill and highly predictable police saga with lots of stereotypes and few surprises. Minorities and women are not portrayed in a particulary flattering way.
Summary of New Centurions [VHS]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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