In a bombed-out wasteland stands a police station- less a precinct house than a fort in hostile territory. Outside the walls are the murders, the riots, the drugs, and the everyday lives that texture the bleak urban landscape. Inside, amidst corruption and indifference, each officer does what he must do to survive his tour of duty in FORT APACHE, THE BRONX. His controversial, hard-hitting feature stars Paul Newman as the tough, tired Officer Murphy. His performance sets the tone of a film which moves from reality to romance, from comedy to great desolation of spirit, from demoralization to hope.