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Choirboys (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 119 mins

  • Director: Robert Aldrich
  • Writer: Joseph Wambaugh; Christopher Knopf
  • Producer: Merv Adelson; William Aldrich

CGiii Comment

From the director of: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

This is basically racist, sexist and homophobic - it bears no resemblance to Wambaugh's excellent novel.

It is a heavy-handed, inept adaption with no appeal whatsoever - except for the mindless twats who actually found this crap funny.

Aldrich really had no idea about his audience - but then - a job's a job.

Let this rubbish be forgotten.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A disparate group of Metro Los Angeles police officers - the rank and file - bond over their commonality of being brothers in blue despite their differences. The other thing they all seem to need is a venue to blow off some steam together, what they collectively call "choir practice": after hours piss ups, usually in public, where they again can relieve the pressures of the work day. Despite their brotherhood, not all their lives they feel they can share with each other in the overwhelming sense of what it means to be a real man in this environment. A few weeks in their lives and a few choir practices later are shown, when three of the younger officers, Baxter, Lyles and Bloomguard - the latter two who served together in Vietnam - are temporarily assigned to night duty in Vice under the leadership of Sgt. Scuzzi, who they always assumed was the janitor; as young Proust tries to mitigate the negative effects of his unabashedly blowhard, redneck and bigoted partner, Roscoe out on the street; and as "Spermwhale" Whalen - so nicknamed for being thirty pounds overweight - inches ever closer to retirement and a twenty year pension, it never a certainty he will make it in his continual clashes with the upper brass, especially Lt. Grimsley.

Cast & Characters

Charles Durning as Spermwhale Whalen;
Louis Gossett Jr. as Calvin Motts;
Perry King as Baxter Slate;
Clyde Kusatsu as Francis Tanaguchi;
Stephen Macht as Spencer Van Moot;
Tim McIntire as Roscoe Rules;
Randy Quaid as Dean Proust;
Chuck Sacci as 'Father' Sartino;
Don Stroud as Sam Lyles;
James Woods as Harold Bloomguard;
Burt Young as Scuzzi;
Susan Batson as Sabrina;
Cheryl Smith as Tammy;
Claire Brennen as Carolina Moon;
Gene Chronopoulos as Card player