Fort Apache, The Bronx Movie Review (1. It's sort of insidious, the. It's said to be based on the. New York's Bronx. The. area looks like a bomb site, with burned- out buildings and people. Read the Fort Apache, the Bronx plot and find out who is in the cast and crew at Movies.com. Murphy is a street cop in the tough borough of the Bronx -- known to its denizens as "Fort Apache." While Murphy treats the people on his beat with dignity, he can't. We found 20 alternative movies like Fort Apache the Bronx. The. filmmakers wanted to go into this area and use a police story as a framework. That was. their intention, anyway. What they came out with is the most complete. Advertisement. There were authentic perceptions and ideas. You can see them in. But then there's a story line that keeps getting. There are too many scenes that are necessary to the plot but not to. And we realize that somehow Hollywood hasn't wanted to get too close. Instead, it has borrowed a look of grim authenticity and. 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TV cop shows is an insult to the abilities of the. Enjoy Fort Apache, the Bronx online with XFINITY®'s high-quality streaming anytime, anywhere. Watch your favorite movies with XFINITY® today! List of Similar movies like Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) - The Border, Q&A and more FORT APACHE, THE BRONX,' WITH PAUL NEWMANTHE controversy over Daniel Petrie's ''Fort Apache, the Bronx,'' about life at an embattled police precinct station house in the South Bronx, recalls the controversy over William Friedkin's ''Cruising'' except for one important detail: ''Cruising'' turned out to be a dud, a big, fat soggy mess of a bomb that never went off, while ''Fort Apache, the Bronx'' looks as if it's going to be a hit, a movie that will be seen by a lot of people. The film, which opens today at the Criterion and other theaters, is a tough- talking street melodrama, both shocking and sorrowful, acted by Paul Newman and a huge cast with the kind of conviction that can't be ignored. Those questions have much more point in connection with a film as entertaining as ''Fort Apache, the Bronx,'' which, having been filmed in the South Bronx and having been based on the experiences of two New York police officers, has the effect of fact presented as fiction. One of the reasons the film is so effective is that, right from the start, the audience shares a sense of physical desolation that eventually becomes psychological as well as spiritual. Having implicated us in this truth in such a fashion, the film makers would seem to have a responsibility to be accurate, though I suspect that not everyone objecting to the film would agree on all of the things about it that are supposed to be inaccurate. These objections can't be answered here, which is not to say that they shouldn't be raised. Petrie's South Bronx is an urban nightmare, a contemporary American vision of World War II Hamburg (or Dresden or Manila or Hiroshima), destroyed not by saturation bombing, artillery warfare or the A- bomb but by decades of what is euphemistically referred to as urban decay, civic neglect and shifting population patterns. The heart of this community is Precinct Station House 4. It's where the old people gather during the day to sun themselves, gossip and play cards, comforted by the immediate presence of the law. The film begins almost casually: Early morning. A deserted side street. Two rookie police officers sit in their patrol car near the end of their night shift. A tall black hooker named Charlotte, wearing a blond wig and spike heels, totters over to the car. She makes them a proposition they can refuse in good humor. She giggles. They suggest she go on home. She assumes a seductive pose, leaning through the window on the driver's side. As they talk some more, Charlotte, still giggling, pulls out a handgun and shoots both men at point- blank range. There are also would- be suicides, babies to deliver, a confrontation with angry community activists and corruption within the precinct house itself, including one white officer's mindless murder of a Puerto Rican youth. However, the film doesn't hesitate to pull back from the affairs of Murphy and Corelli to show us vignettes of life that are forever out of the reach of the two officers. If the film has the freedom to look into the spaced- out activities of the murderous Charlotte, might it not also have the freedom to suggest that the black police officers with whom Murphy and Corelli work are more than just dress extras? When a film considers the theme of civilization's decline, it has obligations that a simple chase movie doesn't. Newman gives his best performance since ''Slapshot.'' At this point, it's impossible to tell exactly where the public personality stops and the acting starts, but however he works, he is terrific - skeptical, ironic, self- deprecating and, frequently, just exhausted. Rachel Ticotin, a beautiful young actress new to films, has the break of her career as the Puerto Rican nurse with whom Murphy falls in love, only to lose under circumstances that are not untypical of the locale. Newman work beautifully together. Newman's comparatively callow partner, Mr. Wahl is also fine, suggesting a new Richard Gere, but an actor whose interests go beyond the self. Miguel Pinero, the playwright (''Short Eyes''), has a couple of short but riveting scenes as a Spanish- speaking drug dealer. There are unfortunate ellipses in the way it sees life in the South Bronx, unfortunate lines of dialogue and unfortunate sequences (the babydelivery scene). But it's also entertaining and very moving, which is not something you can say of most movies about the decline and fall of civilizations. At the Gemini, Second Avenue and 6. Street; Criterion, Broadway and 4. Street; Orpheum, Third Avenue and 8. Street, and other theaters. Running time: 1. 25 minutes. This film is rated R. Paul Newman. Connolly . Edward Asner. Corelli . Ken Wahl. Morgan . Danny Aiello. Isabella . Rachel Ticotin. Charlotte . Kathleen Beller. Jumper/Detective . Tito Goyo. Hernando . Miguel Pinero. Jose . Jaime Tirelli. Track Star . Lance William. Guecia Pimp . Ronnie Clanton. Dacey . Clifford David. Dugan . Sully Boyar. Heffernan . Michael Higgins. Pantuzzi . Rik Colitti. Applebaum .
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