Harder-boiled version of Laura -- hard enough, in truth, to be bounced around a handball court. The tough-guy hero, played by Burt Reynolds in his closest-cropped and most attractive toupée, also exhibits a sensitive side. In addition to falling in love at long distance with the thousand-dollar call girl under his surveillance, he likes to spend his leisure time watching children at play or carving roses in a hand-crafted window seat; he even sheds a tear or two (but doesn't scream out loud) when Chinese torturers chop his fingers off one by one. He, like all the best and most honest cops in Atlanta, has been relegated to the vice squad -- police Siberia -- because of his obstinateness in pursuit of criminals, and this is why, according to this movie's silly notion, the vice squad is the sole police unit free from internal corruption and impervious to external pressure. With Brian Keith, Bernie Casey, Henry Silva, Vittorio Gassman, and Rachel Ward; directed by Reynolds. (1981) — Duncan Shepherd
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