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...finally, the icemen enjoyed their first typically Harvard hard skating performance since the overtime heartbreak at Boston University a week ago, rallying when behind on two separate occasions to cop the victory...
Shooting from the lip, Los Angeles Police Chief Edward Davis brands advocates of gun control "quacks" and legislators who support liberal marijuana laws "irresponsible, no-good sons of bitches." Come January, Davis, 61, who likes to call himself the "toughest cop in America," will retire from the force and make a bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. "I have discovered that there is a vacancy in the Governor's mansion," says Davis, referring to the fact that Incumbent Jerry Brown lives in his bachelor flat. "So I set my sights on that. It certainly needs to be filled...
When David L. Gorski became chief of University police three years ago, he was given free rein to shape the department in his own image: that of a tough, no-nonsense city cop. Now Gorski is gone, and Harvard administrators are learning that the tough-guy image may not be the best one for the University force...
Here the distant antagonists are a crook (Jacques Dutronc), working his way up from the small time in pre-World War II France, and a cop (Bruno Cremer), who is working his way up in the police bureaucracy. The film dawdles perhaps too long over their early struggles for advancement. On the other hand, both are established as men of some decency in their private lives-a point to be borne in mind once Lelouch finally arrives at the heart of his film, namely the war years...
...cop goes to work for the Vichy government, under the impression that even if the new order is in power, the old criminal order will still be up to its traditional tricks-and in need of pursuit. He does not seem to notice that his new masters have unconscionably broadened the definition of criminal. Meanwhile, back in the underworld, Occupation spells opportunity for Dutronc and his pals-until his common-law wife (Marlene Robert) is captured and tortured by Cremer. The detective's wife (Brigitte Fossey) is, in turn, taken hostage by the criminals and threatened with whatever fate...