Cop Hater (film)

Cop Hater is a 1958 American police procedural film, based on the 1956 novel Cop Hater by Ed McBain, the first in a series of books about the 87th Precinct in New York City. The film was produced and directed by William Berke, written by Henry Kane, and stars Robert Loggia and Gerald S. OLoughlin.

During an intense summer heat wave in New York City, two cops are murdered and its up to the detectives of the 87th Precinct to find the killer. Steve Carelli Robert Loggia and Mike Maguire Gerald S. OLoughlin are the lead investigators on the case, but they cant seem to make any progress, and their work is made more difficult by a reporter, Hank Miller Gene Miller, who keeps sticking his nose in. The two cops try to keep their personal lives separate from their work, but it keeps bleeding through. When Maguire is shot and killed, Carelli has to comfort his partners sexpot wife Alice Shirley Ballard, and then goes on a bender with the reporter, inadvertently revealing his suspicions about the case, and putting his girlfriend Teddy, a deafmute author Ellen Parker, in jeopardy. When a hood Hal Riddle shows up at her apartment, Carelli overpowers him and forces a confession he killed all the cops, but Maguire had been the intended victim all along, as his wife wanted him out of the way.

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