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Fort Apache, the Bronx

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Fort Apache, the Bronx
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R,2hrs 5min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1981
Director:
Daniel Petrie
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
Paul Newman, Ed Asner, Ken Wahl  ...more
Synopsis: Paul Newman stars as an essentially decent cop patrolling that decimated, drug-and-gang-ridden borough known on the city maps as the Bronx, but known to its denizens as "Fort Apache". While Newman tries to hold on to his basic humanity and to treat even the sorriest of the people on his beat with dignity, he can't do much to convince his superiors that blind brutality is not the answer to social blight. When he witnesses fellow-cop Danny Aiello cold-bloodedly murdering a crime suspect, Newman is ... Full Synopsis
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Nick Sambides, Jr., AMG Review
Leading men and serious actors like Jack Nicholson and James Caan took career nosedives as adult roles evaporated in the youth-dominated cinema of the late '70s and early '80s, but classics like Paul Newman just kept soldiering on. Here the cool hand plays a beat cop patrolling a South Bronx wasteland of crushing poverty, drugs, and crime. How does a man keep his head about him when all around him ... Full Review
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Paul Newman
Murphy
Ed Asner
Connolly
Ken Wahl
Corelli
Danny Aiello
Morgan
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Paul Newman in "Fort Apache, the Bronx" (1981) (Everett Collection)
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