Trivia / Code of Silence

• Cast the Expert: Dennis Farina, who plays the cop Detective Dorato, was actually working as a real life police officer in Chicago, Illinois during the production of this picture.
• Divorced Installment: The script was originally offered to Clint Eastwood as the fourth Dirty Harry film with a working title of Dirty Harry IV: Code of Silence, but Eastwood turned it down.
• Those Two Actors: Joseph Kosala and Ron Dean were in this and five other films together, and often in the same scene. Not by coincidence, all six movies were Andrew Davis films.
• What Could Have Been: Jeff Bridges, Charles Bronson, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Gene Hackman, Tommy Lee Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell and Jon Voight were considered for Eddie Cusack.

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