Written by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas' biography. He observed police corruption and reported it in 1967, gave the story to the New York Times in 1970 and was shot the following year. He did briefly recuperate in Switzerland and lived abroad for a while but returned to New York in 1980. Everywhere he had been in the city - Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx - the corruption seemed worse and worse and by not taking the money he put himself in great danger. And according to the film, that completely soured any private life he had, with girlfriends Barbara Eda-Young and Cornelia Sharpe.
Dede Allen has a great way of propelling you from one scene to another like this - Smack! Smack! - which gives the film a great momentum. Richard Marks is co-editor.
With Al Pacino: John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts, M Emmet Walsh and (uncredited) F Murray Abraham and Judd Hirsch.
Arthur Ornitz photography nice and gritty; Mikis Theodorakis' music is less successful and mixed too high. Paramount.
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