Law and Disorder (1974)
- Director(s):
- Ivan Passer
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
Synopsis of Law and Disorder
Fed up with an escalating crime rate and an increasingly ineffective police force, blue-collar New Yorkers Willie and Cy (Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine) join a citizen's vigilante group. Their efforts to act as an auxiliary police force are comically inept, but director Ivan Passer lulls us into laughter only to catch us unprepared when he wants to play things in dead seriousness. After finally proving their worth as after-hours cops, Willie and Cy are euphoric; this lasts just long enough for Cy to be killed. Constantly changing its tone and point of view, Law and Disorder struck just the right nihilistic note in the 1970s. Modern viewers may not be quite as responsive, though many will cheer Willie's final act of defiance against the Big Apple. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Law and Disorder
- Adam Lessuck - Eddie
- Bill Richert - Desk Sergeant
- Leslie Ackerman - Karen
- Teodorino Bello - Chico's Mother
- Pat Corley - Ken
- Jay Fletcher - Jogger
- Edward Grover - Capt. Malloy
- J. Frank Lucas - Flasher
- Carroll O'Connor - Willie
- Joe Ragno - Peter
- Gary Springer - F.U. Kid
- Pepper Wormser - Yablonsky
- Jack Stamberger - Morris
- Ed Madsen - Frank
- Sydney Sherrif - Ralph
- Allan Arbus - Dr. Richter
- Ernest Borgnine - Cy
- Anita Dangler - Irene
- Rita Gam - Woman in Cab
- Jack Kehoe - Elliott
- Michael Medwin - Man in Cab
- Lionel Pina - Chico
- David Spielberg - Bobby
- Ann Wedgeworth - Sally
- Karen Black - Gloria
- Director(s):
- Ivan Passer
- Writer(s):
- William Richert, Ivan Passer
- Producer(s):
- William Richert, Fred Caruso, Michael Medwin
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language)
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