The Choirboys (1977)

Regista:

Robert Aldrich

Writers:

Christopher Knopf (writer)
Joseph Wambaugh (novel)

Data di uscita:

23 dicembre 1977 (USA)

Genere:

Crime | Drama

Slogan:

Don't look for these guys in church.

Plot:

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Dominatrix | Police | Based On Novel | Independent Film

Recensioni degli utenti:

Pretty close to the real thing...I know

Cast

Charles Durning	...	Spermwhale Whalen
Louis Gossett Jr.	...	Calvin Motts
Perry King	...	Baxter Slate
Clyde Kusatsu	...	Francis Tanaguchi
Stephen Macht	...	Spencer Van Moot
Tim McIntire	...	Roscoe Rules
Randy Quaid	...	Dean Proust
Chuck Sacci	...	'Father' Sartino
Don Stroud	...	Sam Lyles
James Woods	...	Harold Bloomguard
Burt Young	...	Scuzzi
Susan Batson	...	Sabrina
Cheryl Smith	...	Tammy
Claire Brennen	...	Carolina Moon
Gene Chronopoulos	...	Card player

Alias:

Ragazzi del coro, I (Italy) [it]

Durata:

119 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

Mono

Divieti:

Netherlands:16 (original rating) | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1978) | Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1988) | West Germany:18 (f) | France:-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Norway:18

Luoghi delle riprese:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Airone Productions

Citazioni:

Roscoe Rules: [attempting reverse psychology on a female attempting to jump from a roof] Go ahead, Bitch. Jump!
[she jumps]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Colonna sonora:

I've Got a Crush on You

Pretty close to the real thing...I know

I was a cop with about 10 years on the street when I read Wambaugh's book, and figured the movie would be terrible. I thought Altman and his crew caught both the flavor of the book and of life on the mean streets of LA dead on.

Maybe you had to have been there. I was a great Hill Street fan (still am), but it was sanitized for TV, and much less like the real thing because of needing to maintain a plot line. Life ain't like that, and neither was The Choir Boys.

Cop humor is hard to fathom for outsiders. Cops are, in fact, a minority group anthropologically, meeting all the same criteria. Life out there doesn't go from A to B to C. It's chaotic. So was the movie, a little. Good job of catching the feeling.