FREELA CONFIDENTIAL: CLASSIC NOIR EBOOK James Ellroy | 496 pages | 02 Jun 2011 | Cornerstone | 9780099537885 | English | London, United Kingdom L.A. Confidential () - IMDb Build up La Confidential: Classic Noir Halloween Watchlist with our list of the most popular horror titles on Netflix in October. See the list. Title: L. Confidential Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the La Confidential: Classic Noir to seek justice, but barely able to keep La Confidential: Classic Noir raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L. 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Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. As corruption grows in s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait- laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. Director: Curtis Hanson. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. The Best Horror Movies on Netflix. Movie and TV Anniversaries for September On Location: Los Angeles. Russell Crowe: On Directors. Favorite La Confidential: Classic Noir. On My Prime Video List. Movies to watch. Share this Rating Title: L. Confidential La Confidential: Classic Noir. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. User Polls A. Top 25 two-word movie quotes Favorite Sneaky Alternative Christmas Movie? Top Rated Movies Won 2 Oscars. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Kevin Spacey Jack Vincennes Russell Crowe Bud White Guy Pearce Ed Exley James Cromwell Dudley Smith Kim Basinger Lynn Bracken Danny DeVito Sid Hudgens David Strathairn Pierce Patchett Ron Rifkin Ellis Loew Matt McCoy Mickey Cohen Paolo Seganti Johnny Stompanato Elisabeth Granli Edit Storyline 's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Taglines: Everything is suspect Edit Did You Know? Trivia Much has been made about the fact that this Los Angeles-based, and inspired film, stars two Australians in two of its most prominent roles. Actually, that should be three, for further down La Confidential: Classic Noir cast list, in the smaller part of the actor who gets busted, is a young Simon Baker. Goofs White's car leaves dust clouds when he leaves the Victory Motel on the way to Lynn's house during the rain storm. The sun shines bright, the beaches are La Confidential: Classic Noir and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty, and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You La Confidential: Classic Noir have all this, and who knows Life is good in Los Angeles That's what they Crazy Credits At the end of all the credits, there is a brief scene from "Badge of Honor" featuring a onscreen dedication in honor Sgt. Alternate Versions In the Hong Kong television version, during the scene where Bud La Confidential: Classic Noir into the interrogation room, the part where he removes all the bullets from the gun but one is removed for some reason. So it cuts straight from his coming into the room and then sticking the gun into the rapist's mouth without giving it a Russian roulette feel. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Was it so the kid could get killed? Q: Was Vincennes in on the Nite Owl murders? Was Sid? La Confidential: Classic Noir USA. Language: English. Also Known As: L. Runtime: min. Color: Color Technicolor. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Jack Vincennes. Dudley Smith. Lynn Bracken. Pierce Patchett. Ellis Loew. Mickey Cohen. Johnny Stompanato. Officer Arresting Mickey Cohen. ‘L.A. Confidential,’ a neo-noir classic, turns 20 — Film Noir Blonde Confidential is a American neo-noir crime film directed, produced and co-written by Curtis Hanson. The screenplay by Hanson and Brian Helgeland is based on James Ellroy 's novel of the same namethe third book in his L. Quartet series. The film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers inand the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. The title refers to the s scandal magazine Confidentialportrayed in the film as Hush-Hush. One of the film's backers, Peter Dennett, was La Confidential: Classic Noir about the lack of established stars in the lead roles, but supported Hanson's casting decisions, and the director had the confidence also to recruit Kevin SpaceyKim Basinger and Danny DeVito. Confidential was nominated for. Confidential for preservation in the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or La Confidential: Classic Noir significant". Already isolated from other officers by his intelligence and career ambitions, he volunteers to testify against La Confidential: Classic Noir in the " Bloody Christmas " case in exchange for promotion to Detective Lieutenant, despite the advice of La Confidential: Classic Noir captain Dudley Smith. Plainclothes Officer Wendell "Bud" White, whom Exley considers a "mindless thug", is obsessed with viciously reprimanding woman-beaters. White hates Exley due to his partner, Dick Stensland, being fired thanks to Exley's testimony. With crime boss Mickey Cohen imprisoned for tax evasion while his underlings are being mysteriously killed, Cpt. Smith recruits White to torture out-of-town criminals trying to gain a foothold in Los Angeles. Both work for Pierce Patchett, whose Fleur-de-Lis service runs prostitutes altered by plastic surgery to resemble film stars. Sergeant Jack Vincennes is a narcotics detective who moonlights as a technical advisor on Badge of Honora TV police drama series. Sid Hudgens, publisher of the Hush-Hush tabloid La Confidential: Classic Noirpays him for tips on celebrity arrests. Exley soon investigates a robbery and multiple homicide at the Nite Owl coffee shop. Stensland was one of the victims. Exley and Vincennes arrest three African-American felons for the crime; they later escape from police custody and are killed by Exley in a shootout. Exley is decorated for bravery. Although the Nite Owl case appears solved, Exley and White individually investigate further, discovering evidence of corruption all around them. Lefferts' mother tells White that Stensland was Susan's "boyfriend"; White searches the crawl space under her house and finds Meeks' corpse. He then interrogates Johnny StompanatoMickey Cohen's ex-bodyguard, who says Meeks was trying to sell a large stash of heroin he had stolen. After Reynolds is murdered, a guilt-ridden Vincennes joins Exley's investigation to find the killer. Vincennes later confronts Smith with evidence that Meeks and Stensland worked together under Smith's command a decade earlier, and dropped an investigation on Patchett, who had Hudgens photographing businessmen with hookers in a blackmail scam. Smith suddenly shoots Vincennes, who dies after murmuring "Rollo Tomasi", a name which Exley told him in confidence. The next day, Exley's suspicions are aroused when Smith asks him who "Rollo Tomasi" is. During an interrogation of Hudgens, Smith arranges for White to see photos of Lynn having sex with Exley, which sends White leaving in a rage to find him. At the police station, White and Exley fight, but stop when both realize that Smith is corrupt. They deduce that Stensland killed Meeks La Confidential: Classic Noir the stolen heroinLa Confidential: Classic Noir that the La Confidential: Classic Noir Owl killings were to allow Smith to kill Stensland. The three African-Americans were framed by evidence planted by Smith's men. Finally cooperating, Exley has White beat up Loew, who reveals that Smith and Patchett aided by Hudgens' blackmail photos have been taking over Mickey Cohen's criminal empire, and that the killings were because of Smith tying up loose ends. They later find Patchett and Hudgens murdered. Smith lures Exley and White into an ambush. After the pair kills Smith's hitmen in a gunfight, White and Smith wound each other. Exley holds Smith at gunpoint, but as Smith tries to surrender to arriving police, Exley shoots him dead. At the police station, Exley explains La Confidential: Classic Noir he, Vincennes and White learned about Smith's corruption. The LAPD thus decides to protect their image by saying Smith died a hero in the shootout, whilst awarding Exley a second medal for bravery. Upon leaving City HallExley shakes hands with a recuperating White and watches as he and Lynn drive off to her home in Arizona. Curtis Hanson had read half La Confidential: Classic Noir dozen of James Ellroy 's books before L.