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...Cop a mope: get away from...
...downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted the token turnstiles and boarded a train. When the token seller cursed them as "Spanish trash," Pinero let loose with a few oaths of his own. Picked up by a transit cop on a charge of harassment, Miguel got rather more attention than he had bargained for. A marijuana joint found in his dungarees pocket earned him a minor charge of carrying drugs...
...this affable, unambitious movie, Nightclub Comedian Jackie Mason appears as a grubby police informer named Roger Pittman, who heads for Miami and a big time with $7,500 from the police contingency fund. Brogan (Dan Frazer), the cop who lent Roger the money as a means to trap a crook, lights out after him. With a couple of days' head start, though, Roger is already spending like crazy. He installs himself in an expensive hotel room, acquires an eye-numbing resort wardrobe and falls in love with a lonely number from Long Island (Marcia Jean Kurtz...
Roger has spent nearly all the 7,500 bucks, so when Brogan tracks him down he has almost nothing to return. The stoolie, the cop and the girl friend then form an unlikely trio, trying to figure a means to make the money back. There is a final burst of sentimentality that manages to promise both happy futures and just deserts. It also reveals the sappy foundation beneath the movie's superficially tough exterior, like a stand-up comic who spikes his patter with a tear...
...romantic capitals of the espionage world nor a menacing psychopath stalking some picturesque Gothic mansion. Rather, he is a weary night watchman, working the lobster shift at a backwater college, who has the misfortune to discover a murdered coed on his rounds. Jim Slade is a onetime top cop who has just done time for killing his cheating wife and has taken this job only because it is the closest thing to police work the parole board will allow. Portrayed by Burt Lancaster -who is turning into an attractive, hard-working actor as superstardom fades-he is a functionary trying...