The Blue Knight (1973)
The Blue Knight (1973)
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 3h 8mn | 3,62 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama | Director: Robert Butler
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 3h 8mn | 3,62 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama | Director: Robert Butler
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after twenty years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.
IMDB - Won 4 Primetime Emmys
Operating as an offshoot of the first season of POLICE STORY, this 3+ hour character study - that’s actually trimmed down from 400 minutes on Warner Archive’s disc - has a rather shaggy and almost plotless feel, bouncing around the beat of aging boy in blue Bumper Morgan (William Holden, at his most leathery). He’s a guy who thrives amongst the pimps, junkies, hustlers, and other lowlifes, running his own con (often subconsciously) by simply wearing his uniform and earning everything from free meals to hot love from pasty sporting showgirls in back alley dance clubs. When Bumper’s main squeeze (Lee Remick) - a college professor in Los Angeles - decides to transfer out to San Francisco, the cop in turn chooses to hang up his spurs, but wants to go out on a high note by nabbing a nobody prostitute’s killer. This is so grey and amoral - shot entirely on location in the sun drenched concrete cracks of LA - that it’s honestly somewhat tough to believe it actually aired on NBC during Prime Time in ‘73. Helps that MINNIE & MOSKOWITZ cinematographer Michael Margulies is lensing the mini-series, with regular Joe Wambaugh collaborator (and POLICE STORY writer) E. Jack Neuman bringing Bumper’s broken, lumpy microcosm to life. But it’s really Holden that (naturally) brings it all home, playing a hard fascist who truly believes he’s doing right by the people, but is really nothing more than a disingenuous swindler in his own right. Bonus points for a young Sam Elliott as the up-and-coming detective constantly side-eyeing Bumper’s every move. This one’s a total gem and representative of everything I love about this era of TV/cinema.
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The Blue Knight (1973)
