“Shoot a purse snatcher — they’d crucify me!”
“Say he pulled a knife — we’d back you up.”
This bit of dialogue between two cops on the beat in the film Fort Apache the Bronx is typical of the movie’s overall tone. It presents the South Bronx as a place where a decent man, in this case Paul Newman, is struggling to stand up straight while the undertow of immorality is sucking the sand out from under…
