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...