TunePlay - CODE OF SILENCE (1985) David Michael Frank

Not every police thriller can be THE FRENCH CONNECTION. But what separates one from the dense pack of “also-rans“? A good script, certainly. But also a personal “point of view“, “distinct sense of style“, and “an attitude“. SHAFT (1971), released the same year as CONNECTION, also scripted by it’s Ernest Tidyman, and similarly filmed “guerilla style“ on the streets of New York, would stake it’s own claim via the prism of it’s ethnic pride subtext, brought to the film (along with a visual elegance) courtesy o