Cinema: Cop Song

THE BLACK MARBLE

Directed by Harold Becker

Screenplay by Joseph Wambaugh

A police station is not the first place anyone would go to look for a little romance, but audiences willing to put up with Writer Wambaugh's customary cop grunginess will find in The Black Marble a sweetly eccentric love story.

Sergeant A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth) is of Russian descent, and so, perhaps, comes by his chronic melancholia naturally. A recent divorce and — it is gradually revealed — his investigations of a particularly ugly series of child murders have done nothing to lighten his...

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