However, a script written by Peter Salcudeanu and Titus Popovici in 1971 put me in mind of two American actors - James Cagny and Humphrey Bogart - and the gangster movies of my youth...
[1] The earnest, by-the-book Roman teams with the more unorthodox (and apolitical) Tudor Miclovan (played by Sergiu Nicolaescu himself) to clean up organized crime in post-war Bucharest.
[2] In the next film in the series, The Last Bullet, Roman hunts downs Miclovan's killer, a local gangster and smuggler named Semaca.
[1] Long Way to Tipperary is based on the historical Tămădău Affair; Roman tracks traitors plotting to flee the country to set up a government in exile, and arrests them at the airport.
[5] In Trap,[6] the final film of the series, Roman deals with remnants of the Iron Guard entrenched in the Carpathian Mountains.