Night Falls on Manhattan
Night Falls on Manhattan is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, set and filmed on location in New York City. Its screenplay is by Lumet, based on a novel by Robert Daley entitled Tainted Evidence.
Detectives Liam Casey Ian Holm and Joey Allegretto James Gandolfini are conducting a surveillance operation to apprehend Jordan Washington Shiek MahmudBey, a notorious drug dealer. On a tip from an informant, they venture into a building where Washington is presumed to be hiding. Washington preemptively fires a submachine gun through his front door, seriously wounding Casey. Police backup units arrive and swarm the building, but Washington executes a cunning escape in an NYPD squad car after murdering two police officers, while police officers mistakenly kill another one.In a surprising move after the suspects lawyer, Sam Vigoda Richard Dreyfuss, brings him in, district attorney Morganstern Ron Leibman appoints Sean Casey Andy Garca, a newly graduated assistant district attorney and the son of Liam, the wounded detective, to prosecute Washington. Passing over the more experienced executive assistant Elihu Harrison Colm Feore, Morganstern deliberately picks Casey due to Harrisons expected opposition in the upcoming election for New York County District Attorney. ........
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