Word: flatfooted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the nitwit action, one notes what might be called a typically Gallic touch: even in the furthest extremities, Belmondo remains modishly tailored. This causes problems. Tapered trousers make it difficult to get a leg up, and boots with high heels cause any flatfoot to slip and slide on the fabled Paris roofs. It could be said that the only genuine suspense The Night Caller has to offer is whether the leading man will split his pants...
...such a theme could have made a strong movie. As played-badly-by Michael Moriarty, Beauregard ("Bo") Lockley is less a cop of high principle than one of low IQ. With no perceptible help from Director Milton Katselas (Forty Carats), Moriarty cooks up a caricature of a sad-sack flatfoot, slow on the draw and even slower on wit. Although excuses are supplied for his presence on the force - his father was a cop, but standards have slipped since the old days - Moriarty overplays Bo so desperately that it seems unlikely he could have remained a policeman even...
BADGE 373, according to the credits, is "inspired by the exploits of Eddie Egan," the former New York cop whose fictionalized doings were also the basis for The French Connection. But inspired is not a word to be employed anywhere near this flat-footed flatfoot saga...
...point with an unusual demonstration. Glenn had been picked up in a bar during a gambling raid. If he had been guilty, he contended, he would most likely have run for it. His experience as a high school sprinter and halfback was all he needed to outdistance an ordinary flatfoot. "We'll see," said Judge Everett Dudley. Acting as starter himself, the judge presided over a 50-yard race between Glenn and Vernon James, the officer who had made the arrest. Glenn won the contest-and acquittal. Verdict: not guilty...
...unmarked patrol car cut off the Dodge's escape route; other officers convoyed the driver to the stationhouse. It was the 20th arrest in seven weeks for Sharon Mann, 23, a trained social worker who now packs a .38 revolver in her new role as an undercover flatfoot floozy...