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...Lindsay calls Joseph Fink "my favorite hippie." The truth is, Fink is something of a square. He does not freak out, sport beads or let his hair hang to his collar. Instead, Fink wears the badge of a deputy inspector in the New York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement at them, Fink stands...
During one such gathering last month, they succeeded. Fink's peace seemed on the verge of blowing up after one cop bloodied the scalp of a yippie who was resisting arrest. But the next day when 150 Workshop demonstrators marched into St. Mark's Place seeking revenge, Fink was there to supervise them, along with five of his men. For all their noisy speeches, they could not persuade the spectators to turn against the police. As a benevolent Fink looked on, the rally soon fizzled out. Even when 20% of Fink's men called in sick during...
This highly polished piece of cop art emphatically watches a lone lieutenant playing it straight in a crooked world. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), of the San Francisco police force, is assigned to keep a state's witness alive and soon finds himself wallowing in other people's blood. A colleague is shotgunned down, a witness ice-picked, a blonde garroted. These are only his minor problems. A self-aggrandizing official (Robert Vaughn) wants Bullitt "castrated" because he fails to obey orders the way his cowardly superiors do. Bullitt's girl (Jacqueline Bisset) says that...
Reminiscent in style of the good old Warner Bros, crime films of the '40s, Bullitt is given a distinct touch of Now by Director Peter Yates. The movie is full of gritty city details and has a streaking pace that would leave Jim Ryun winded. As the beleaguered cop, McQueen is surprisingly subtle, mixing his customary hip swagger with an urban high-strung sensibility; like Oscar in The Odd Couple, he is so tense he has clenched hair...
...landlord, in turn, is shot down by a crooked cop (Gene Hackman), who makes off with the money but later joins forces with Brown to shoot it out with the accomplices. Naturally, the accomplices all die, and the cop becomes a hero. As for good old Jimmy Brown, he is about to escape with his share, when he is called-symbolically-by the voice of the dead Diahann, summoning him-symbolically-to hell. And there, as they say in professional football, The Split ends...