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COP, adapted by director James B. Harris from James Ellroy’s 1984 novel Blood on the Moon, opens without fanfare. An abrasive LAPD detective embarks on an obsessive manhunt for a serial killer he believes is responsible for the brutal slaying of several young women in the Hollywood area. Violent, largely formulaic police procedural adrenalised by star James Woods' gimlet-eyed intensity. Leslie Ann Warren, Charles Durning and Charles Haid co-star. For the record, in the 1950s, director Harris partnered with a then unknown Stanley Kubrick to produce the critically acclaimed classics The Killers, Paths Of Glory and Lolita.
