DER Documentary
Three Domestics
From the Pittsburgh Police
series
by John Marshall
black and white, 30 min, 1971
Pricing information and conditions
This film shows Pittsburgh police intervening in three domestic situations: (1) A woman wants the police to remove the man she has been living with in common law. They arrange for his arrest on an assault and battery charge; (2) A woman accuses her boyfriend of beating her and the man accuses her of lying. The police remove the man with some difficulty; (3) A boisterous and drunken father is removed from his house to spend the night in jail at the insistence of his wife and older son. Throughout the sequence, the father is cared for by his younger son.
Other films in the series:
- After the Game
- A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding
- The 4th and 5th and the Exclusionary rule
- Henry is Drunk
- The Informant
- Inside/Outside Station Nine
- Investigation of a Hit and Run w/ Legal Discussion
- 901/904
- Manifold Controversy
- Nothing Hurt But My Pride
- Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days
- Two Brothers
- Vagrant Woman
- Wrong Kid
- You Wasn't Loitering
- Youth and the Man of Property
