One of the its-hard-to-run-a-police-station-in-the-grimy-inner-city sub genre, later familiar on TV shows like Hill Street Blues. It's an ensemble piece although it features three icons, Burt Reynolds, Yul Brynner (a small role) and Raquel Welch. There's a variety of subplots, various crooks, sleaze, and lots of politically incorrect humour like Tom Skerritt molesting Welch on stake out, Reynolds and Jack Weston dressed as nuns.
I didn't like it. The tone is bleak and smart arse. I know exactly the sort of people who would like this movie. I felt really sorry for Welch who was trying to do a good job.
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