MOVIES FROM 2017 ON DVD SERIES
Like “The Americans,” FX’s series about Soviet sleeper agents, “Decoy,” also known as “Decoy: Police Woman,” is all about acting. In one powerfully claustrophobic episode, she’s sent to prison to solve a murder assumed by the guards to be a convict and branded as an informer, she has to cope with the scariest prisoner in the cellblock, played with consummate aggression by Colleen Dewhurst. The plots have Casey usually going undercover, impersonating a petty thief, crooked cop, nightclub hostess, mannequin or showgirl, always with flair. (Her first kill, nearly a third of way through the show’s run, is a traumatic event.) Inspired by “Dragnet” but predating “Naked City” by one season, the show’s ambience is that of Neorealist-inflected film noir.
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“Decoy,” a syndicated half-hour show, which lasted 39 episodes and starred Beverly Garland as the police officer Casey Jones, is notable both for its unusual protagonist - a female crime fighter - and its New York City locations.Ī cop with the looks of a model and the instincts of a social worker, Casey is hard-nosed and big-hearted. And all six movies about the blundering Inspector Clouseau, starring Peter Sellers and directed by Blake Edwards (who also did much of the writing), are out from Shout! Factory as the six-Blu-ray “Pink Panther Film Collection.”
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It’s a case of good cop, bad cop: The 1957-58 series “ Decoy,” an obscure gem from the golden age of network television, has been issued in its entirety on a three-disc set from Film Chest Media Group.