bkoganbing Code Two from MGM's B picture unit is the story of three rookie cops at the Police Academy and then their first assignments on motor patrol with the LAPD. This is not a Police Academy film by any means, it could have been done by Jack Webb. At Warner Brothers in the Thirties the rookie with the big mouth and attitude would have been played by Jimmy Cagney.And the training officer would have been played by Pat O'Brien. Here at MGM in the Fifties the parts are played by Ralph Meeker and Keenan Wynn respectively. The other two rookies are Jeff Richards and Robert Horton.All three opt for motorcycle patrol and within days of being assigned Richards is killed when he stops a truck doing a little smuggling. After that Meeker loses the attitude and he and Horton take leave just to find Jeff Richards' killers.Code Two is a combination of a long Dragnet episode and one of those basic training military films. Meeker is kind of a lovable lout who gets real serious as the occasion calls.There's some good Los Angeles location photography and nicely staged action sequences. All in all an acceptable B programmer.

swojtak I was an LAPD Explorer in the late 1960"s and had shot on the Academy pistol range. The movie showed the Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters (outside) before Parker Center was built. It also showed the real Academy with the pool, parade ground, a fenced area, indoor training area, dispatch, and pistol range. The part that was not real was the dining room. The dining room looked like a movie set. Some of the the motorcycle training looked real too like laying down the bike and driving through the cones. Like I learned during my motorcycle training course (civilian), it does not take much of a rider to go fast. The trick is how slow can you go!. It was also interesting how the movie gave a plug for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The movie had everything I like bikes, guns, and cops. What else is there.

mark.waltz This crime drama with smidgens of elements of film noir in it starts off as a view of the training that motorcycle policemen go through before being sent out onto the road. That takes up almost half of the film's very short running time, and by the time the rookie (Ralph Meeker) is on the road, he's only got one crime here to deal with, that of the capture of a gang of smugglers who killed another rookie and left him dead in the middle of the highway.For the first half, exposition is the theme, and you get lots of training footage and arguments between Meeker and one of his trainers (Keenan Wynn, who also narrates). Once the plot thickens, then the action really occurs, the murder of the cop actually pretty brutal and the discovery of who is behind it very clever. The conclusion is also very graphic, involving a tub of lye that threatens to instantly dissolve whatever lands in it. For that, the film is worth putting up with the slow first half, which makes it seem as if this was intended as the start of a "B" series which never took off.

ihunt4u I saw this movie as a kid when i was about 13 or so. I remeber this as one of the coolest movies I have ever seen. I am sure, now it would seem a little less dramatic, but it has stayed with me all these years. There is one scene where the truck hijackers are stopped by a cycle cop and when they get the chance to knock him out they do. They then take him and put him under the tires of the big rig and {pretty violent for back then} back up over him. A young chuck Conners, Ralph Meeker and Keenan Wynn make this a must see for biker, crime and film noir fans. I believe Ted Turner owns this movie and I wish he would release it on video. Enjoy the film if you can ever see it.