Fort Apache, The Bronx

Fort Apache, The Bronx is a 1981 American Neonoir crime drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Paul Newman, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Edward Asner, Rachel Ticotin, Kathleen Beller, Pam Grier, Clifford David and Miguel Piero. It was written by Heywood Gould and produced by Martin Richards, Thomas Fiorello, with David Susskind as executive producer.

Police officers face many challenges in the decayed South Bronx region of New York City. Among them are NYPD officers Murphy Newman and Corelli Wahl, who work out of the 41st precinct, nicknamed Fort Apache because to those who work there, it feels like an army outpost in foreign territory an allusion to Fort Apache out of the Old West.The precinct itself is one of the worst and most dilapidated in the entire department, approaching demolition and staffed mostly by officers who are unwanted by and have been transferred out of other precincts. Additionally, the precinct is of little use to the large Puerto Rican community, as onlyof the officers are Hispanic in the largest nonEnglish speaking section of the Bronx, according to retiring precinct captain Dugan. ........

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