Prince of the City is a 1981 crime-drama film about an NYPD officer who chooses to expose corruption. It stars Treat Williams and Jerry Orbach and was directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on Robert Daley's 1978 book of the same title.
The DVD was released on May 22, 2007, without the commentary by Sidney Lumet that had been announced in an online chat on February 21, 2006 on the Home Theater Forum by a Warner Home Video representative. However, ...
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Prince of the City is a 1981 crime-drama film about an NYPD officer who chooses to expose corruption. It stars Treat Williams and Jerry Orbach and was directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on Robert Daley's 1978 book of the same title.
The DVD was released on May 22, 2007, without the commentary by Sidney Lumet that had been announced in an online chat on February 21, 2006 on the Home Theater Forum by a Warner Home Video representative. However, Lumet appears on the DVD in a companion featurette by Laurent Bouzereau.
Orion Pictures bought Robert Daley's book for $500,000 in 1978. Daley was a former New York Deputy Police Commissioner for Public Affairs who wrote about Robert Leuci, an NYPD detective whose testimony and secret tape recordings helped indict 52 members of the Special Investigation Unit and convict them of income tax evasion. Originally, Brian De Palma was going to direct with David Rabe adapting the book and Robert De Niro playing Leuci but the project fell through....
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