Law and Disorder

1974
R
1 Std. 41 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn crime-ridden 1970s New York City, cops Willie and Cy have had enough. Along with other disgruntled people, they decide to take matters into their own hands - only to realize too late that... Alles lesenIn crime-ridden 1970s New York City, cops Willie and Cy have had enough. Along with other disgruntled people, they decide to take matters into their own hands - only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.In crime-ridden 1970s New York City, cops Willie and Cy have had enough. Along with other disgruntled people, they decide to take matters into their own hands - only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.

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6,3/10

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Wissenswertes
Co-stars Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine would eventually have the shared distinction that for each, one of their most popular roles had been originated by Rod Steiger. In the live TV anthology series The Philco Television Playhouse (1948), Steiger had first played the role of Marty Pilletti in Marty (1953), later played by Borgnine winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Marty (1955). Steiger would later win his own Best Actor Academy Award for playing Chief Bill Gillespie in In der Hitze der Nacht (1967), a role that--when the movie was adapted as the long-running TV series In der Hitze der Nacht (1988), starting its run more than two decades after the original film--would be played by O'Connor, that casting occurring 14 years after this film, at a time when O'Connor was already at his peak of popularity with another iconic television role, that of Archie Bunker on Es bleibt in der Familie (1971).

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Cy: I believe this area has degenerated into the biggest cesspool for perverts, creeps, thieves, junkies, sexual deviants, and all unwashed freaks in the city of New York!

Alternative Versionen
In the Anchor Bay DVD/VHS release, the scene where Cy shows Willie the hot police car he bought is cut a bit. In the original theatrical version, after Cy shows Willie the siren, Cy then shows Willie some stickers he is going to put on the car to make it look like an authentic police car, this part is missing in the home versions.

Verbindungen
Featured in Trailer Trauma V: 70s Action Attack! (2020)

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Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

Fascinating time capsule

This movie is basically a slice-of-life drama about working class people trying to maintain some order when, as Hamlet said, "the time is out of joint". It's plotless and episodic, and the tone changes from broadly comic early on to utterly nightmarish by the end. It has tons of authentic New-York-in-the-'70's atmosphere (it would play well on a bill with TAKING OF PELHAM 123 or SERPICO), and was, of course, actually shot there. The racial tensions, the collapse of the system, the oddballs, the hopelessness -- they're all there. And the performances are quite good -- neither O'Connor nor Borgnine has ever been better.

If you know what to expect, you will probably enjoy it very much. There are a few negative reviews from people who were obviously expecting a straight comedy... that's not what this movie is.