Code of Silence

Infobox Film
name = Code of Silence


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director = Andrew Davis
producer = Raymond Wagner
writer = Michael Butler
Dennis Shryack
Mike Gray
starring = Chuck Norris
Allen Hamilton
Molly Hagan
music = David Michael Frank
cinematography = Frank Tidy
editing = Christopher Holmes
Peter Parasheles
distributor = Orion Pictures Corporation
released = flagicon|US May 3, 1985
flagicon|Germany July 19
flagicon|UK September 20
flagicon|Philippines September 21
flagicon|Japan November 9
runtime = 101 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
budget =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:10158
imdb_id = 0088936

"Code of Silence" is a 1985 cult action film directed by Andrew Davis and staring Chuck Norris.

It was typical for the genre and the star but filmed on location in Chicago with a few sub-plots. It featured Norris as Sgt. Eddie Cusack, a streetwise plainclothes officer who takes down a crime czar / drug lord responsible for officers being wounded in a botched drug raid. In the film's climax Norris teams with a more than menacing crime-fighting robot named "Prowler". "Code of Silence" is a slang term for a police officer's cover for one another in circumstances where an officer makes a mistake or is corrupt. This plays a subplot whereby every officer in the station covers up for an aging, alcoholic officer who accidentally shoots a teenage boy then covers up the murder by planting a gun on the victim. Norris's character is the only one to speak out against the corrupt officer and is temporarily ostracized by most of the other officers in his unit.

Reviews

* [http://www.internalbleeding.net/2008/07/code-of-silence Code of Silence review at Internal Bleeding]