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...lulling machine (2 complex contraption with a cash register attached), and this new non-commercial version of the trials of Popeye Doyle in search of Frog One--a major supplier of New York's heroin--is therefore a great deal more interesting. Doyle was originally the kind of cop that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their ear if he wanted to call headquarters. And while we were supposed to like him, his temper--the man pounding furiously on the expressionless subway door with his prey smug inside, and his brash lack of cool...
...suspects in the case are a gallery of stereotypes: the alcoholic mother (Joanne Woodward) and the horny teen-age daughter (Melanie Griffith); the good-hearted slut (Linda Haynes) and the spoiled, untrustworthy rich girl (Gail Strickland); the menacing moneybags (Murray Hamilton), the surly chauffeur (Andy Robinson), the sardonic cop (Tony Franciosa...
...pool itself, a hydrotherapy room that, when flooded, poses a fearful threat to Harper and a fair companion. The rest of the movie is comprised of situations as familiar as the characters: the car-run-off-the-road scene; the private-eye-being-rousted-by-the-local-fuzz scene (cop weighing eye's fire arm: "You got a license for this thing?"); and the final, unpersuasive unearthing-of-the-dark-family-secret scene. The dialogue is also obligatory, right down to the girl's wistful line, "You're not such a tough guy, Harper...
...years, the rate of robberies has increased 255%, forcible rape 143%, aggravated assault 153% and murder 106% (see chart). Preliminary reports to the FBI this year show that the rate for violent crimes as well as property crimes like burglary is still sharply on the rise. Says a Chicago cop: "You just can't paint the picture...
Harold MacEwen, 34, was paroled from Stateville prison in Illinois after serving 12½ years for killing an off-duty cop during an armed robbery. "The crime itself was inexcusable," says MacEwen, who is studying for his M.A. in psychology and works for the Illinois Department of Corrections. "But I was 20, and what I was also holds true for most young whites and blacks in ghetto slum areas. We would classify each other, and then we would have to live up to the classification. I thought I was hip, in the know, wise, and umpteen other things...