The New Centurions-1972-George C. Scott and Stacy Keach

Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by director Richard Fleischer. The film has a bad-tasting us-versus-them mentality in its depiction of patrolmen-civilian interaction, and its hopeless atmosphere carries over into the bleak suicide of one of the principle characters. But behind its rancid veneer, the story is the old "B"-movie police story concerning a rookie cop being shown the ropes by a kindly and wizened old veteran. Roy (Stacy Keach) is the young patrolman introduced into the ways of Los Angeles street life by Kilvinsky (George C. Scott), the philosophical old pro. Kilvinsky is just short of retirement and wants to educate Roy to succeed him when he leaves. Roy, however, is on the edge because of a recent divorce, and it takes many speeches by Kilvinsky and the love and affection from his new black girlfriend Lorrie (Rosalind Cash) to keep from going over the deep end.



Cast:



George C. Scott - Sgt. Andy Kilvinski

Stacy Keach - Roy Fehler

Jane Alexander - Dorothy Fehler

Scott Wilson - Gus

Rosalind Cash - Lorrie

Erik Estrada - Sergio

William Atherton - Johnson

Beverly Hope Atkinson - Alice

Burke Byrnes - Phillips

Peter de Anda - Gladstone

Michael de Lano - Ranatti

Stefan Gierasch - Landlord

Charles H. Gray - Bethel

Hilly Hicks - Young Black

Clifton James - Whitey

Richard Kalk - Milton

Michael Lane - Lumberjack

Ed Lauter - Galloway

Mittie Lawrence - Gloria

Boyd "Red" Morgan - Woodrow Gandy

Roger E. Mosley - Truck Driver

Anne Ramsey

Isabel Sanford - Wilma

Pepe Serna - Young Mexican

James B. Sikking - Sgt. Anders

Carol Speed - Martha

Dolph Sweet - Sgt. Runyon