THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN
Directed by STUART ROSENBERG Screenplay by THOMAS RICKMAN
The Orson Welles Memorial Prize for the most self-conscious camera work of 1973 is hereby presented to Stuart Rosenberg for The Laughing Policeman.
The award is made for the work as a whole, which, in order to accommodate the director's self-indulgences, is at least a half-hour longer than good narrative sense dictates; and for one shot in par ticular, in which, having used every silly setup imaginable, Rosenberg finally resorts to photographing some action reflected on the side of a toaster.
Otherwise, The Laughing Policeman is no laughing matter. Adapted from one of the...
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