A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.
Acting
Lydon's sneering stillness vs Keitel's sweating desperation.
Direction
Faenza turns one room into a pressure cooker of ego.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes class resentment like a shiv.
Director
Roberto Faenza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lydon was fresh from PiL and public enemy status; casting him as an untouchable aristocrat torturing a cop was deliberate transgression.
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