The estimable Richard Fleischer (Fantastic Voyage, The Boston Strangler) directs Stirling Silliphant's adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's compulsive best-seller, The New Centurions, focusing on a group of rookie cops who make their way from the LAPD police academy to the city's very mean streets. George C. Scott stars as a wise but embittered veteran along with Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jane Alexander, and Rosalind Cash.