Nacht über Manhattan

Originaltitel: Night Falls on Manhattan

1996
12
1 Std. 53 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,6/10

9101

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Andy Garcia in Nacht über Manhattan (1996)

trailer wiedergeben2:13

1 Video

95 Fotos

Legal Thriller Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Ein neu gewählter Bezirksstaatsanwalt befindet sich mitten in einer polizeilichen Korruptionsuntersuchung, in die sein Vater und sein Partner verwickelt sein könnten.Ein neu gewählter Bezirksstaatsanwalt befindet sich mitten in einer polizeilichen Korruptionsuntersuchung, in die sein Vater und sein Partner verwickelt sein könnten.Ein neu gewählter Bezirksstaatsanwalt befindet sich mitten in einer polizeilichen Korruptionsuntersuchung, in die sein Vater und sein Partner verwickelt sein könnten.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,6/10

9101

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
This movie is loosely based on the real-life case of Larry Davis, a drug dealer who shot six cops, but was acquitted (with William Kunstler as his lawyer) after charging that the police were trying to kill him because they were involved in the drug trade. The Manhattan District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau, was also nicknamed "Morgy".

Patzer
Judge Impelliteri's sentences are indeterminate sentences. Adding "no parole" to an indeterminate sentence makes no sense. He sentenced Washington to 3 terms of "25 years to life, with no parole." A sentence of 25 years to life is a life sentence in which you become eligible for parole after serving 25 years. He also gave Washington 2 terms of "15 to 25 years each, with no parole." This is an indeterminate sentence of 25 years where you become eligible for parole after serving 15 years.

Zitate
Sean Casey: The two rat-fucks? Rat-fucks! You took money from Harlem's biggest dealer. You committed perjury at his trial. You engaged in a conspiracy to kill him when he wouldn't cough up more dough, and now you're offering to turn in seven other cops in order to save yourself, and you have the nerve to call them rat-fucks? You were a cop, Joe, and now you're garbage! You're nothing!

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Night Falls on Manhattan/Rudyard Kipling's the Second Jungle Book/Love! Valour! Compassion!/Sprung/A Chef in Love (1997)

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Good movie that was based on The Larry Davis Story

This film is definitely based on the Larry Davis incident that took place in the late 80's where corrupt cops tried to shake down a drug dealer who wanted out of their "system"(dealers who payed off cops to rob other dealers). When he got out due to the death of his infant daughter, they invaded his home, he fought back by killing and wounding some officers and escaped leading to a dangerous manhunt in NYC. When they finally caught him (an old family relative snicthced on him), false accusations were brought up by the police and the media to portray him as a ruthless thug who ran away after killing the cops when all he wanted to do was leave the organization involving crooked cops and drug dealers. He is still serving time in Rikers Island fighting for a new trial.

Check out the documentary called THE LARRY DAVIS STORY which won an award for Best Documentary in the Urbanworld Film Festival in 2003.

However, it serves well on film and Sidney Lumet is great act capturing the look and feel of NYC in the early 90's. It has a "Prince of the City" feel to it.