Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

swojtak I was an LAPD Explorer in the late 1960"s and had shot on the Academy pistol range. The movie showed the Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters (outside) before Parker Center was built. It also showed the real Academy with the pool, parade ground, a fenced area, indoor training area, dispatch, and pistol range. The part that was not real was the dining room. The dining room looked like a movie set. Some of the the motorcycle training looked real too like laying down the bike and driving through the cones. Like I learned during my motorcycle training course (civilian), it does not take much of a rider to go fast. The trick is how slow can you go!. It was also interesting how the movie gave a plug for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The movie had everything I like bikes, guns, and cops. What else is there.

kidboots By 1953 Hollywood's biggest threat was television, much like radio had been in the twenties. Films were coming up with different gimmicks, like 3D and widescreen ie Vista Vision etc but television came up with some interesting ideas as well, like the proliferation of realistic police shows such as "Dragnet" (which actually was developed from the noir movie "He Walked By Night"). It seemed that every crime division had a series - "Racket Squad", "Federal Men", "Decoy" had Beverly Garland as an undercover cop and there was even a "Code 3" series which was a nitty gritty show on police procedure that producers hoped would compete with "Dragnet" - but it didn't.This movie starts with some graphic scenes of the aftermath of crashes, some statistics and some grim commentary - "this woman was on her way to the beauty parlour - she won't be so beautiful now", then the titles come up, trying to fool the cinema audience into thinking that they were watching a movie length "Dragnet" - but they were not fooled for long. This film was a tribute to the motorcycle cop and after 20 minutes showing the basic training of the rookie cop, it soon got bogged down in their personal lives - until the last 20 minutes. There are three buddies, Russ Hartley (Robert Horton), happily married but who can't bring himself to tell his wife he has applied for motor cycle duty, Harry Whenlon (Jeff Richards) whose father was killed in the line of duty and O'Flair (Ralph Meeker) a wise guy and skirt chaser. Keenan Wynn plays tough but fair Jumbo Culdane who can see O'Flair has the makings of a good cop.It takes the death of Whenlon for O'Flair to come to his senses and the last part of the film has all the action as he tracks down and follows the cattle truck to it's destination. There are a couple of realistic fights and a shoot out all played out around a vat of quick lime. William Campbell, billed as "the killer" is not so lucky - he is one of the first to go. There is a pretty cheesy ending as luscious Elaine Stewart, whose performance in the film should have been a kick start to better things, promises to visit O'Flair in hospital again, but two seconds later he proves he has not lost his sleazy ways as he quickly chats up a nurse.Sally Forrest, who had the very thankless role of Mary, Hartley's wife, was a discovery of Ida Lupino's and proved she was up to the high dramatic performances in some of Ida's ground breaking films. However when Ida stopped directing, Sally became just another pretty leading lady and "Code Two" was the beginning of the end. The rest of the cast was made up of actors who would make their own name in TV (Robert Horton, Chuck Connors in a bit part) and James Craig, probably hoping this would lead to a comeback.With his easy going style (usually hiding psychotic tendencies) and his natural acting, it was hard to believe Ralph Meeker was not a film veteran when he made this. He was a stage veteran though and went on to star in the Broadway production of "Picnic". I always thought he was the perfect "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" leading man, starring in the very first episode "Revenge".

sol (Some Spoilers) Making the grade as LAPD motorcycle policemen the "Three Musketeer" biker cops Chuck Russ & Harry, Ralph Meeker Robert Horton & Jeff Richards, where now well on their way to keep he peace on the streets and highways of L.A County.Eariler a rivalry developed between Chuck & Harry when the third member of the trio's, Russ, pretty sister-in-law Jane Anderson, Elaine Stewart, dropped the sure of himself, with women, Chuck for the shy and meekly Harry to be her partner at the LAPD police biker graduation dance. Even though she promised, or so he thought, that she'll be Chuck's date at the dance. Whatever falling out Chuck had with the totally innocent Harry, whom Jane was using to get under Chuck's skin, soon ended with Harry losing his life when he was both knocked out and run over by a pair of cattle rustling truckers whom he stopped for running a red light in the city.Feeling guilty and responsible for his friend's Harry's death in that it was his not Harry's call to ticket the tuckers, not knowing at the time that they were rustling cattle, Chuck took it upon himself to track them and their cattle rustling gang members down and bring them to justice. Going undercover as a renegade biker much like Marlon Brando's Johnny in the movie "The Wild One" Chuck tracks the cattle rustlers down outside L.A city limits where their in the process of slaughtering for market their ill gotten gains the stolen cattle. Trying to act cool and nonchalant when he's caught by the cattle rustling gang Chuck's cover is blown when his LAPD issued motorcycle is spotted hidden by one of the gang members!It's then that Chuck takes matters into his own hands and ends up getting shot twice for it but in the end he puts the guy-William Campbell-who murdered his friend in a boiling pit of quicklime, with a judo flip, when he tried to do the same to him. Now fighting for his life Chuck, with two bullets drilled into him, holds off the rest of the gang until help arrives! Chuck's former LAPD drill instructor, who was one of those LAPD cops who came to his rescue, Jumbo Culdane (Keenen Wynn) who thought of him to be a wise guy who disliked taking orders soon realized that his instincts was right on about the now straight as an arrow Chuck. All he needed was to be shown the errors of his way and in him knowing them Chuck and only Chuck thus ended up correcting them.

ihunt4u I saw this movie as a kid when i was about 13 or so. I remeber this as one of the coolest movies I have ever seen. I am sure, now it would seem a little less dramatic, but it has stayed with me all these years. There is one scene where the truck hijackers are stopped by a cycle cop and when they get the chance to knock him out they do. They then take him and put him under the tires of the big rig and {pretty violent for back then} back up over him. A young chuck Conners, Ralph Meeker and Keenan Wynn make this a must see for biker, crime and film noir fans. I believe Ted Turner owns this movie and I wish he would release it on video. Enjoy the film if you can ever see it.