Code of Silence
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| Code of Silence | |
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 Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Andrew Davis |
| Produced by | Raymond Wagner |
| Written by | Michael Butler Dennis Shryack Mike Gray |
| Starring | Chuck Norris Allen Hamilton Molly Hagan |
| Music by | David Michael Frank |
| Cinematography | Frank Tidy |
| Editing by | Christopher Holmes Peter Parasheles |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) |  May 3, 1985 July 19 September 20 September 21 November 9 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Code of Silence is a 1985 cult action film directed by Andrew Davis and staring Chuck Norris as a Chicago police officer who takes down a Chicago drug lord.
Typical for the genre and the star, but filmed on location in Chicago with a few sub-plots. It featured him with a more than menacing police fighting machine named "Prowler". Code of Silence is a slang term for the code of silence whereby 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. Chuck Norris's character is the only one to speak out against the corrupt officer and is ostracized by most of the other officers in his unit.
