Ah yes, the days when it was not fashion to wear the blue suit and white socks. George Kennedy brings it home to a gripping reality, of prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, thugs, death, and violence in the street. George Kennedy had a way of making you believe the situation and character portrayed. Many method actors couldn't get their "star-persona" out of the way long enough to get that fact in itself. Bumper Morgan could take time out of his personal life and patrol duty life to protect what he felt was "his beat". He took it personal, and he made a difference. It never took a village, only people that would sacrifice their very lives to make a difference. Any other T. V. or hollywood copper movie and I would have never gotten that emotionally involved.
Review of The Blue Knight
