Tod eines Polizisten

With Flowers For Matty, Telly Savalas bid farewell to his career role of NYPD Detective Theo Kojak now moved up to the rank of inspector for the feature films. In a corrupt post Watergate Kojak was that rare commodity, an incorruptible cop.

In this film Kojak is put on a case involving some stolen art from society folks. These are movers and shakers and it irks him to be working on this when a detective friend of his Eddie Jones has been killed leaving widow Barbara Barrie and a young son.

Little does he know at first, but the two cases are connected and the whole picture involves a really corrupt Internal Affairs cop Tom Atkins, an Irish emigre Donald Moffat and daughter Glynnis O'Connor and the provisional Irish Republican Army.

Standing out in the cast is Richard Lynch an IRA contract killer who's the one doing in a lot of people. This is a great portrayal to whole gallery of psycho killers that Lynch seems to specialize in on the big and small screen.

This was a good farewell for Kojak. We could use a lot of Kojaks on any police force.

I have always said that Matty did not deserve flowers but when I saw Tel deliver this masterpiece I was not sure. What captured my was the suspense this show captivated and how it brought the plot together for the climax.

All in all a good watch, go for it.