by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Made for television, Broken Badge originally aired as The Rape of Richard Beck. Richard Crenna plays Beck, a hard-bitten cop who has little patience for female rape victims. Then he himself is sexually assaulted by two assailants. Crenna's excellent performance notwithstanding, the teleplay by James G. Hirsch is a bit simplistic, drawn up along the lines of the old bromide "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged" Meredith Baxter Birney is seen all too briefly as a rape counsellor. The Rape of Richard Beck premiered on May 27, 1985, as an "ABC Theatre" presentation.
characteristics
- Rapist
- Rape
- Police-officer
- Ridicule
- Switching-loyalty
- Sexual-assault
- Out For Revenge
- Masculinity
- Demean
- Dehumanization
- Food For Thought
- Humiliation
