Special Fundraiser for the Ridgefield Police Union: Prince of the City
Special Fundraiser for the Ridgefield Police Union: Prince of the City
The Ridgefield Playhouse Film Society Presents Prince of the City
Q&A with Actor TREAT WILLIAMS and NYPD Narcotics Officer Robert Leuci
Underwritten by Cohen and Wolf, HB Group, The Ridgefield Press, Sony XDCAM HD
Great Pre-Theater Dinner Menu at Bernard’s! Visit Bernard’s before this event and they will get you out in time for the film or show! As a special, show your tickets to the event and enjoy a free glass of wine at Sarah's Wine Bar or a special prefix menu at Bernard's when you present your tickets to these performances. Sarah's Wine Bar opens at 5:00 / Bernard's at 5:30. 22 West Lane, Ridgefield
Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City is a classic crime film about a NYC police officer who chooses to expose police corruption for idealistic reasons. The character of Daniel Ciello (Treat Williams) was based on Robert Leuci, a
real-life NYPD Narcotics Detective. The film and its screenwriters, Director Sidney Lumet and Jay Presson Allen, received an 1982 Academy Award Nomination for “Best Adapted Screenplay”. That year, the film also had
received three Golden Globe nominations and Sidney Lumet won the NY Film Critics Award for “Best Director.”
Film Critic Roger Ebert said, “Prince of the City is a film about cops, drugs, and New York City, in that order. After the film starts to turn itself over in your mind, it becomes a much deeper piece, a film about how difficult it is to go straight in a crooked world without hurting people you love. The film is about the ways in which a corrupt modern city makes it almost impossible for a man to be true to the law, his ideals, and his friends, all at the same time. The movie has no answers, only horrible alternatives.” The film is based on a book by former Ridgefield resident, Robert Daley about Robert Leuci, a New York police officer who cooperated with a 1971 investigation of police corruption. In the movie Leuci is called Ciello. He is played by actor Treat Williams in a demanding and grueling performance.
Williams is almost always onscreen, and almost always in situations of extreme stress, fatigue, and emotional turmoil. We see him coming apart before our eyes. He falls to pieces not simply because of his job, or because
of his decision to testify, but also because he’s in an inexorable trap and sooner or later will have to hurt his partners.
Actor Treat Williams and former NYPD Narcotics Detective Robert Leuci,will be on hand for the Q&A. Robert Leuci is the author of numerous books and short stories including “All the Centurions” and “Blaze.” He has also
worked as a TV series writer on Sidney Lumet’s “100 Centre St”.
Ticket Price: Adults $10, Seniors $7.50, Students $5.00
SPECIAL RIDGEFIELD POLICE UNION FUNDRAISER - SPECIAL $25 MEET AND GREET TICKET AVAILABLE - A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT THE RIDGEFIELD POLICE UNION....Meet and Greet with Actor Treat Williams & NYPD Narcotics Officer Robert Leuci at 5:30pm in the lobby.
