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The recent Blu-ray release of 1982’s Vice Squad, courtesy of boutique home video distributer Scream Factory, gives crime film aficionados the perfect opportunity to finally get wise to one of the most underrated and underseen thrillers of the ’80s, arguably the greatest sleaze noir of all time..
By presenting rugged figures of lone authority—usually male (though there are a number of exceptions) and almost always white—as the ideal of old-school, rugged American individualism, they repudiated the revolutionary ideals of the 1960’s, as well as the ideological morass of the 1970s. Directed by Gary Sherman. 80's Hollywood was a cesspool (still is, but its hidden better ) and the setting alone is enough to make you swab your eyes with sanitizer! Vice Squad is gritty, mean spirited, and a little sleazy. While it’s standard for filmmakers and actors to interview and hang around cops while prepping for a film set in the world of law enforcement, Sherman went above and beyond, enrolling in (and completing) the academy training program and eventually signing on as a police reservist. Released in 1982, this movie bears the distinct inclusion of 1 actor, Wings Hauser, in the role of bad guy/pimp, Ramrod. A volatile cop (Gary Swanson) uses a Hollywood prostitute (Season Hubley) to trap a sadistic pimp named Ramrod (Wings Hauser) who murdered one of her friends. Under the watchful eye of Detective Tom Walsh, who's tracking her every move, she works to solve the brutal murder of a streetwalker named Ginger. As he explained it, ask any cop who the absolute worst scum on the streets were, and they’d undoubtedly answer, “white pimps.” Unlike black and Latino pimps, for whom the job was a way to make money fast and pull themselves out of the slums (with almost none of accompanying risks of drug dealing), white pimps usually came took to it simply because they enjoyed the lifestyle—especially the excuse it gave them to hurt women.The film’s closely observed portrait of street life—from the women and girls (and men and boys) working it, to the pimps overseeing it, to the cops regulating it, to the johns driving it—came about through intensive first-hand research undertaken by Sherman himself. At the time, this actor was very convincing in his ability to play the nasty antagonist of … Rather than fleeing from the law, he cuts a terrifying swath of mayhem through the streets of the city in a frenzied attempt to find Princess and exact horrible vengeance. There, he chatted with the nightly array of sex workers, as well as pimps, johns, junkies, drunks and hustlers that moved regularly through processing, getting to know them almost as well as he knew the cops.Ramrod is a composite of a number of real-life characters that Sherman either met or was told about by police. The Beat Chicago is your home for everything old school. Wow, the very mention of the movie “Vice Squad” takes me back a bit. At the same time, for all their self-righteous moral indignation, these films liked to present sexual violence in as titillating a manner as possible, even while leaning on its inherent horror to make allowances for the protagonist’s inevitable use of extrajudicial lethal force.
However, there’s no full-frontal nudity (aside from a brief flash during a tracking shot through a strip club) and only one actual sex scene, which is presented in as un-titillating a manner as possible.Sherman would go on to direct only a few more movies, each with its share of admirers, but the majority of his credits are in television. Directed by Gary Sherman, Vice Squad is half gritty police procedural, half dark urban fairy tale.
The recent Blu-ray release of 1982’s Vice Squad, courtesy of boutique home video distributer Scream Factory, gives crime film aficionados the perfect opportunity to finally get wise to one of the most underrated and underseen thrillers of the ’80s, arguably the greatest sleaze noir of all time..
By presenting rugged figures of lone authority—usually male (though there are a number of exceptions) and almost always white—as the ideal of old-school, rugged American individualism, they repudiated the revolutionary ideals of the 1960’s, as well as the ideological morass of the 1970s. Directed by Gary Sherman. 80's Hollywood was a cesspool (still is, but its hidden better ) and the setting alone is enough to make you swab your eyes with sanitizer! Vice Squad is gritty, mean spirited, and a little sleazy. While it’s standard for filmmakers and actors to interview and hang around cops while prepping for a film set in the world of law enforcement, Sherman went above and beyond, enrolling in (and completing) the academy training program and eventually signing on as a police reservist. Released in 1982, this movie bears the distinct inclusion of 1 actor, Wings Hauser, in the role of bad guy/pimp, Ramrod. A volatile cop (Gary Swanson) uses a Hollywood prostitute (Season Hubley) to trap a sadistic pimp named Ramrod (Wings Hauser) who murdered one of her friends. Under the watchful eye of Detective Tom Walsh, who's tracking her every move, she works to solve the brutal murder of a streetwalker named Ginger. As he explained it, ask any cop who the absolute worst scum on the streets were, and they’d undoubtedly answer, “white pimps.” Unlike black and Latino pimps, for whom the job was a way to make money fast and pull themselves out of the slums (with almost none of accompanying risks of drug dealing), white pimps usually came took to it simply because they enjoyed the lifestyle—especially the excuse it gave them to hurt women.The film’s closely observed portrait of street life—from the women and girls (and men and boys) working it, to the pimps overseeing it, to the cops regulating it, to the johns driving it—came about through intensive first-hand research undertaken by Sherman himself. At the time, this actor was very convincing in his ability to play the nasty antagonist of … Rather than fleeing from the law, he cuts a terrifying swath of mayhem through the streets of the city in a frenzied attempt to find Princess and exact horrible vengeance. There, he chatted with the nightly array of sex workers, as well as pimps, johns, junkies, drunks and hustlers that moved regularly through processing, getting to know them almost as well as he knew the cops.Ramrod is a composite of a number of real-life characters that Sherman either met or was told about by police. The Beat Chicago is your home for everything old school. Wow, the very mention of the movie “Vice Squad” takes me back a bit. At the same time, for all their self-righteous moral indignation, these films liked to present sexual violence in as titillating a manner as possible, even while leaning on its inherent horror to make allowances for the protagonist’s inevitable use of extrajudicial lethal force.
However, there’s no full-frontal nudity (aside from a brief flash during a tracking shot through a strip club) and only one actual sex scene, which is presented in as un-titillating a manner as possible.Sherman would go on to direct only a few more movies, each with its share of admirers, but the majority of his credits are in television. Directed by Gary Sherman, Vice Squad is half gritty police procedural, half dark urban fairy tale.