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Bookmark this pageThe New Centurions (1972)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A hack adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's novel which makes you see why he subsequently bulldozed into control of his own work on the screen. Every symbol of social unease is grabbed and used with unbelievable crudity in throwing together a series of all-in-a-day's-work episodes: battered baby, rent extortionists, marital strife, gay entrapment (for a giggle), it's all there, except that the more you're supposed to sympathise with the cops, the more sympathy you in fact feel for their victims. It's sort of bound together by a strange initiation theme, in which an older cop teaches the young one all he knows before blowing his own head off.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Fleischer
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Cast: George C Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Erik Estrada, Clifton James, James B Sikking, William Atherton, Ed Lauter full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 103 mins
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