Code of Silence (1985)

	Directed by: Andrew Davis	COUNTRY USA GENRE Action/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Taushetens lov RUNNING TIME 100 minutes
	Produced by: Raymond Wagner
	Written by: Michael Butler Dennis Shryack Mike Gray

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Sergeant Eddie Cusack	Chuck Norris
Luis Comacho	Henry Silva
Commander Kates	Bert Remsen
Diana Luna	Molly Hagan
Detetive Dorato	Dennis Farina	-
Tony "Crazy Tony" Luna	Mike Genovese	-
Felix Scalese	Nathan Davis	-
Detective Cragie	Ralph Foody	½

Review

The first of director Andrew Davis' line of action-thrillers stars Chuck Norris as a low-key police sergeant in Davis' native Chicago. Somewhat against type for Norris at this point of his career, his character here is not that one-man-army we all know from 1980s action movies, and the film's focus on the dramatic aspects of policing and the people the officers encounter in their work may have surprised audiences. It didn't keep them away from the cinemas, however, because Code of Silence was a great box-office success domestically. Offering real, palpable action and an understated, naturally engaging Norris in the lead, the film rises above the many mediocre contemporary entries in the genre. And even the final showdown, which obviously was meant to comply with genre conventions, has a sense of weary necessity and lack of self-satisfaction to it which gives it a certain soberness.