Enjoyable period crime film based on the exploits of a couple of New York City cops, David Greenberg and Robert Hantz. These two characters supposedly had one of the highest arrest records of any NYC cop at the time.
The director Gordon Parks and the screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. have fashioned the movie as a comedy/drama as Greenberg and Hantz spend as much time battling the NYPD bureaucracy as they do busting criminals. Parks was a talented still photographer and he has a real feel for some of New York's seediest locations. The action is fast paced but at least realistic considering these guys are practically a couple of cartoon characters.
In real life Greenberg and Hantz were not really the good guys the film would have you believe but anyone expecting the absolute truth from any film which has the tag line "based on" should know better.
Running time 90 efficient minutes.
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