
This film is about the adventures of a 1940's special anti-gangster police squad in Los Angeles, the infamous 'Hat Squad.' The four members of this squad are big, tough, no-nonsense cops who don't hesitate to break the law, if it suits their purposes. When a local woman is murdered, their investigation turns up the fact that she had been romantically linked to several prominent men and had secret films taken of her liaisons. Since one of those men is the powerful U.S. Army General at the head of the then-new Atomic Energy Commission and another is the (married) leader of the Hat Squad, complications ensue. The FBI even gets involved in an attempted cover-up.
Robert PetersCop #1
Ed LauterEarl
Ernie LivelyForeman
Treat WilliamsColonel Nathan Fitzgerald
Michael MadsenEddie HallCameo: [Bruce Dern] The Chief.
Hoover:
We go where the case takes us.
Fitzgerald:
Not if it takes you here you don't.
Continuity: During Hoover's first meeting with Gen. Timms, Hoover's cigarette disappears between shots.
Written by Jimmy Kennedy and Will Grosz (as Hugh Williams)
Arranged by Jimmie Haskell
Performed by Aaron Neville
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