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Bande de flics !

Original title: The Choirboys
  • 1977
  • 16
  • 1h 59m
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5.6/10
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Bande de flics ! (1977)
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after hours debauchery.
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A group of maladjusted, highly unprofessional Los Angeles cops frequently engage in various forms of illegal and unethical activities on and off duty.A group of maladjusted, highly unprofessional Los Angeles cops frequently engage in various forms of illegal and unethical activities on and off duty.A group of maladjusted, highly unprofessional Los Angeles cops frequently engage in various forms of illegal and unethical activities on and off duty.

  • Director
    • Robert Aldrich
  • Writers
    • Joseph Wambaugh
    • Christopher Knopf
  • Stars
    • Charles Durning
    • Louis Gossett Jr.
    • Perry King
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    • Director
      • Robert Aldrich
    • Writers
      • Joseph Wambaugh
      • Christopher Knopf
    • Stars
      • Charles Durning
      • Louis Gossett Jr.
      • Perry King
    • 34User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
    • 21Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Charles Durning
    Charles Durning
    • Spermwhale Whalen
    Louis Gossett Jr.
    Louis Gossett Jr.
    • Calvin Motts
    Perry King
    Perry King
    • Baxter Slate
    Clyde Kusatsu
    Clyde Kusatsu
    • Francis Tanaguchi
    Stephen Macht
    Stephen Macht
    • Spencer Van Moot
    Tim McIntire
    Tim McIntire
    • Roscoe Rules
    Randy Quaid
    Randy Quaid
    • Dean Proust
    Chuck Sacci
    Chuck Sacci
    • 'Father' Sartino
    Don Stroud
    Don Stroud
    • Sam Lyles
    James Woods
    James Woods
    • Harold Bloomguard
    Burt Young
    Burt Young
    • Scuzzi
    Susan Batson
    Susan Batson
    • Sabrina
    Cheryl Smith
    Cheryl Smith
    • Tammy
    Claire Brennen
    • Carolina Moon
    Gene Chronopoulos
    • Card Player
    Dianne Oyama Dixon
    • Carrier 1's wife
    • (as Dianne O. Dixon)
    Loni Kaye Harkless
    • Secretary
    Louise Lorimer
    Louise Lorimer
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    • Director
      • Robert Aldrich
    • Writers
      • Joseph Wambaugh
      • Christopher Knopf
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    7nearhood1

    To each his own

    Once again I am forced to defend a decent movie. I saw this movie when it came out, I was in college. I thought it was very funny and was a blend of comedy and drama that was above most of the other fair at that time. I saw it again recently and while it had perhaps lost a little of its luster I thought it was still pretty funny. Of course, if you don't like anyone saying politically incorrect things (even if that person is presented as a total moron) then you might be too "delicate" to appreciate the humor.

    Tim McIntyre was hilarious as Roscoe Rules and there was a young Randy Quaid, and James Woods as well. Charles Durning is effective in this film and far from hating the ending, I thought it was not "Upbeat" but rather merely stopped the movie from being a total downer.
    8digitalzen-1

    Pretty close to the real thing...I know

    I was a cop with about 10 years on the street when I read Wambaugh's book, and figured the movie would be terrible. I thought Altman and his crew caught both the flavor of the book and of life on the mean streets of LA dead on.

    Maybe you had to have been there. I was a great Hill Street fan (still am), but it was sanitized for TV, and much less like the real thing because of needing to maintain a plot line. Life ain't like that, and neither was The Choir Boys.

    Cop humor is hard to fathom for outsiders. Cops are, in fact, a minority group anthropologically, meeting all the same criteria. Life out there doesn't go from A to B to C. It's chaotic. So was the movie, a little. Good job of catching the feeling.
    8m-knell

    I loved the book and the movie, sorry.

    It seems like we're supposed to hate this one but I loved it, I'm sorry but there you go.

    Maybe it was because it came out at the time when punk had just happened. To me the book & the movie were such a break from the usual stereotypical pro-authority nonsense we were being regularly served up at the time (and sadly we seem to have gotten back to these days).

    Naturally the book was, by far, the better experience (a genuine 'laugh out loud' read to be highly recommended) but nevertheless I found both hilarious and a long overdue reality check on the forelock tugging blind belief in benevolent and always virtuous 'authority' (something which applies well outsides of the confines of any Police unit too).

    I think it's a real pity we seem to have lost that very healthy irreverence & scepticism and are today saddled with way too much haughty hard-faced tedium and an expectation that we blindly trust authority figures.
    8Nomad-7

    Read the book

    This is not a bad adaptation of Wambaughs book until the end. For some reason someone decided the movie needed an up-beat ending and blew the black ending of the book.
    5yaornw

    Good but could have been better

    There's a saying that the best comedy comes from true life and there certainly is true life on display here but the problem is Altman. Just as the TV show MASH was superior to the movie, in this case the black comedy is there-and there are a few laughs but not nearly enough-because Altman doesn't know how to handle this material. What does capture is the dark humor that the cops use to survive end it captures some of the nature of what cops experience. The problem is I think it takes to too far. There's an incredible cast here though with some familiar faces who weren't notice the time but became quite famous later. For that alone it's interesting especially coming three years before Hill Street Blues a much better realistic portrayal of cops. I don't think this movie deserves all the ire of the reviews but I do think there are better adaptations Wambaugh.

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    • Trivia
      Author Joseph Wambaugh disowned, disavowed, and de-credited himself from this adaptation of his book "The Choirboys". Wambaugh was so incensed with this adaptation of his book, considering it to be such a poor adaption, that he sued the production, and was successful in having his name removed from the film's credits.
    • Goofs
      When Sgt. Yanov reads roll call at the beginning of the movie, he calls out 16 names, but there are 26 men in the room.
    • Quotes

      Roscoe Rules: [attempting reverse psychology on a female attempting to jump from a roof] Go ahead, Bitch. Jump!

      [she jumps]

    • Connections
      Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      I've Got a Crush on You
      Music by George Gershwin

      Lyric by Ira Gershwin

      Performed by Vic Tayback

      Published by New World/Harms

      [Zoony sings the song in the public men's room]

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    • Release date
      • February 8, 1978 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Vietnamese
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • The Choirboys
    • Filming locations
      • Highland Park Police Station - 6045 York Blvd., Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, USA(Interior and exterior. As the police station.)
    • Production companies
      • Lorimar Productions
      • Airone Productions
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    • Budget
      • $6,500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 59m(119 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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