From Flop to Global Allegory: How ‘I Fought the Law’ Cast Became the Meme of Modern Disillusionment
The Law Wins Again—But Only on Streaming: How a Forgotten 1977 Cop Flick Became the Planet’s Favorite Political Allegory Dave’s Locker — International Desk In the spring of 1977, while New York City flirted with bankruptcy and the Baader-Meinhof gang still held Europe’s imagination hostage, Columbia Pictures quietly released “I Fought the Law,” a derivative…