Report to the Commissioner

Report to the Commissioner is a 1975 crime drama film based on James Mills 1972 book and is also Richard Geres film debut. The story involves a rookie cop Michael Moriarty in the New York City Police Department who is assigned a special missing person case, which in fact is meant to be a wildgoose chase to back up an undercover female police officers role as the girlfriend of a drug dealer.

Patty Butler Susan Blakely, an attractive young female police officer, is pretending to be a runaway girl with the nickname of Chicklet. She has been given permission by the Department to be the livein girlfriend of Thomas Stick Henderson Tony King, a suspected drug dealer, so that they can gather evidence against him. To back up her cover story, Detective Bo Lockley Michael Moriarty has been given an almost impossible assignment without being told she is actually an undercover officer, he is instructed to spend a few weeks trying to find this young runaway Chicklet, who is believed to be somewhere in New York City. By Bos actions of openly looking around and trying to find her, this will end up being reported back to Stick, which should convince him that his girlfriend really is a runaway.Bo has no idea that his assignment is basically a fools errand being used as a cover story. Amazingly enough, Bo is actually an excellent police officer and, despite what should have been a hopeless task, he finds Chicklet in the sleazy underbelly of the city. Bo is thanked by his supervisor, Richard Crunch Blackstone Yaphet Kotto, and told to go back to his previous assignment. Either infatuated with Chicklet or not able to just allow her to be another young girl abandoned by the system, he goes to Sticks loft to rescue her. ........

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