Top cast:Valdemar Psilander,Poul Reumert,Ebba Thomsen
Director:Tony Goldwyn
Genre:Comedy
Region:Nigeria
Year:2006
Storyline:The semi-documentary police thriller features an unsympathetic protagonist - the vulgar, brutal, tireless, unlikable, maniacal and sadistic Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) as the main undercover New York City narcotics cop, who toes the thin line between fighting crime and committing crimes himself.Prowler Ralph (first seen at shoe-level until the camera tracked up to his face) watched them kissing through the front screen door - but was garrotted around the neck with barbed wire held from behind a tree trunk(# 2 death).]The film, with a production cost of more than $2 million (about four times more than an average live-action picture), initially failed at the box-office (partially due to the expensive installation of "Fantasound" sound reproduction equipment in theatres), but then its popularity increased and its cult status was assured when the members of the 60""s drug culture adopted it as a favorite hallucinatory experience when it was re-released (alongside other counter-cultural, head-tripping favorites, including2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),Easy Rider (1969), and the re-releasedAlice in Wonderland (1951)in 1974)...The smiling young Princess showed no sign of the strain of the week""s continuous public appearances.And at her country""s Embassy that evening, a formal reception and ball in her honor was given by her country""s Ambassador to Italy.Robinson, Stanley Kramer""sThe Defiant Ones (1958)with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as escapee prisoners chained together, andCool Hand Luke (1967)with Paul Newman as a recalcitrant prisoner.