A Lei de Newman

George Peppard and Roger Robinson play a pair of rugged and honest LAPD detectives who get themselves caught up in a world of corruption. It's his very integrity that brings Peppard down

Even like normal gratuities that police often get Peppard scorns. When he and Robinson sniff out a major drug dealing operation and a mafia kingpin is hooked the two get kudos.

But the bad guys aren't stupid and they set up Peppard with planted money and drugs. Even when he's offered a way out with honor reasonably intact he refuses. He just becomes a rogue and a lot of people go down.

Peppard's title character is compared to Dirty Harry and they sure have some of the same biases. But I get the feeling that Harry Callahan was a lot craftier than George Peppard's Newman.

Note in the supporting cast Eugene Roche as a cop who has some very bendable integrity and Teddy Wilson a dope pusher who is busted by Peppard and Robinson which starts the whole story off.

A Peppard film that should be better known.