A Philadelphia shop owner forms a civilian patrol to stop neighborhood crime. The patrol's actions are seen as racially discriminatory, leading to escalating conflict.A Philadelphia shop owner forms a civilian patrol to stop neighborhood crime. The patrol's actions are seen as racially discriminatory, leading to escalating conflict.A Philadelphia shop owner forms a civilian patrol to stop neighborhood crime. The patrol's actions are seen as racially discriminatory, leading to escalating conflict.
Donna de Varona
- Sara Rogers
- (as Donna DeVarona)
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- TriviaCast members, Tom Skerritt and Yaphet Kotto, both previously had about three years earlier appeared in Alien (1979).
- GoofsWhen John gets arrested following the riot in the park, he has a meeting with the commissioner, who informs John that the bullets that killed Vince could be traced to Eldorado and two of his thugs. In reality, bullets cannot be traced to people, but rather ballistics is used to match them up with certain guns. Even if the guns used were registered to these individuals, someone else could have used the guns to commit the murder.
- SoundtracksYou're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
(Instrumental)
Written by James Cavanaugh, Russ Morgan and Larry Stock
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5.8 rating about right...wanted to like this more, but movie is aimless
I love these 1970s and early 80s gritty movies, and in this regard, the film delivers. The large old American cars, the street scenery, the police, etc. all has that feel that you don't get in today's movie. But overall, the film fails to deliver. By the middle of the movie I was starting to get bored waiting for something more interesting to happen. Much of the movie is also unrealistic. The police seem virtually non-existent, which is not genuine (even if the point is that a neighborhood watch is needed). The rivalry with the pimp also made no sense, there were a series of meetings which just did not flow with the plot. Overall, you are unlikely to be very satisfied with this film, although it is reasonably watchable. This is why the rating is in the 5-6 range and the film remains obscure. The few reviewers who gave it an 8 to 10 rating are waaaaaaay over-rating the movie and do not know what a true 9 or 10 movie is (in my view, only 4-6 movies a year can really be called a 9 or 10).
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- Gross US & Canada
- $3,355,948
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,624,381
- May 23, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $3,355,948
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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