{"id":33253,"date":"2023-07-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33253"},"modified":"2023-07-10T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:50:08","slug":"code-of-silence-1985-starring-chuck-norris-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33253","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Code of Silence&#8221; (1985) starring Chuck Norris \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z071023zview_codeofsilence.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Code of Silence <\/strong><\/em>(1985)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Andrew Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack, Mike Gray <\/strong>story by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Mike Genovese, Nathan Davis, Molly Hagan<\/strong> and <strong>Dennis Farina.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Eddie Cusack&#8217;s a good cop having a very bad day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sergeant Eddie Cusack (Norris) is in charge of a stakeout to take down some big time drug dealers.\u00a0 The stakeout goes sideways when the drug dealers are ripped off and killed.\u00a0 The thieves get away and Cragie, an alcoholic cop on Cusack&#8217;s team. accidentally kills a kid. Cragie then plants a gun on the kid to make the killing look legit.\u00a0 Cusak finds himself alone as he looks to bring Cragie to justice and find the killers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Code of Silence<\/em> was originally offered to Clint Eastwood as a potential <em>Dirty Harry<\/em> film but Eastwood passed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was director Andrew Davis&#8217; first action movie.\u00a0 He would go on to direct action classics like <em>Above the Law; Under Siege<\/em> and <em>The Fugitive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I saw<em> Code of Silence<\/em> when it was initially released and liked it much better then than on a recent re-watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Code of Silence <\/strong><\/em>(1985) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z071023zview_codeofsilence2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Code of Silence (1985) Director: Andrew Davis Screenplay: Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack, Mike Gray story by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33276,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253\/revisions\/33276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}