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Busting, Charley Varrick, Deadly Hero, Defiance, Exterminator, Exterminator 2, Fort Apache the Bronx, Freebie and the Bean, Nighthawks, Police Connection (Mad Bomber), Report to the commissioner, Serpico, Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The French Connection, The Laughing Policeman, The Protector, The Seven Ups, Vigilante, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast
Tonight, we’ll be talking a set of films that almost form a genre of their
own.
These films were often, though not always, “respected” by critics and the general public at large, but all bore that dark, almost despairing
claustrophobia and realistic feel of what I and others were living every day out on the streets locally, far from the dayglo nonsense of the 60’s reruns or the sunnier Hollywood based fare of the day.