OMG!
I don't know for certain if it is, I'd have to see the film again to be sure. But I guess it kind of has to be because... [Yes it is]
There's a whole story here. This has got to be an illustration of how the human mind 'works', or possibly how it doesn't.
At the time of that original enquiry, by a now unknown poster, on TMF, it brought to my mind another film scene that I remembered, but again, not the film itself.
It was a scene in which a rather innocent, hippy, middle class, rooky cop was sent to report to a police station on some job. There he met a hardened, old school, black policemen and introduced himself - his first name being Beauregard. This took the black cop aback: "
Beauregard? Beaure-GARD? Beau-RE-guard?!!" Then the grizzled station sergeant told the black cop he had to work with the rooky as a partner, to show him the ropes, look out for him. I have always remembered this rather hilarious scene, but little else from the film apart from in the end it somehow all goes wrong and the rooky accidentally shoots somebody innocent. But what was the film, dammit!
But here I had a way in. I 'remembered' the rooky cop was played by Bruce Dern. So I set out to check all his films to find out the one. Failure. How could that be? Another mystery... I had no idea who played the black cop in the only scene I remembered. Then I had a thought: could the black cop possibly have been played by Yaphet Kotto? Indeed he could! He was... A quick check on Yaphet Kotto's filmography confirmed this and revealed the name of the film. It also revealed the reason for my earlier failure, the rooky cop was played by Michael Moriarty not Bruce Dern. Memory again.
The name of that film? .................
Report to the Commissioner
It gets better. Only earlier this very evening I made a slight alteration to the Wikipedia page for the film
Report to the Commissioner, followed by an update to Yaphet Kotto's Wikipedia page to include his role as police officer Richard 'Crunch' Blackstone, in the 1975 film
Report to the Commissioner.
The film itself is very 1970s. One thing that people may remember about films from that era is multiple windows (very much out of fashion now - too 1970s; outside computing...). Another 70's film thing, possibly forgotten now, which I always liked at the time, is several films were produced in a 'wrapped' format - a film within a film. If memory serves(!) I believe
Report to the Commissioner was 'wrapped' in this matter, presented as a Report (to the Commissioner) in which the main action of the film was retrospectively played out.