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    L.A. Confidential (1997)

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    This sparkling adaptation of crime master James Ellroy’s novel touches on countless pieces of old Tinseltown lore: the Robert Mitchum marijuana bust, a supposed brothel of Veronica Lake lookalikes, and a notorious level of LAPD collusion with studio bosses and mobsters.

    It’s played with perfect understatement by Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger. The three cops are each trying in their own way to get to the truth behind a brutal mass murder in a diner and to work out where a gossip columnist (Danny de Vito), a pimp (David Straithairn) and a Veronica Lake-lookalike call girl (Kim Basinger) fit in.

    Looking to avoid stale mimicry, director Curtis Hanson asked the cast to study a host of films starring Sterling Hayden and Humphrey Bogart. The aim was for the actors to inhabit the physicality and mood of those films rather than to blindly copycat.

    L.A. Confidential’s genius is that it should be camp, but it dispenses with overt self-awareness, achieving a level of genuine suspense.

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    Jack Vincennes
    Kevin Spacey
    Wendell ‘Bud’ White
    Russell Crowe
    Edmund ‘Ed’ Exley
    Guy Pearce
    Captain Dudley Smith
    James Cromwell
    Morehouse Pierce Patchett
    David Strathairn
    Lynn Bracken
    Kim Basinger
    Sid Hudgens
    Danny DeVito
    Officer Richard (Dick) Stensland
    Graham Beckel
    Matt Reynolds
    Simon Baker
    Brett Chase
    Matt McCoy
    Mickey Cohen
    Paul Guilfoyle
    DA Ellis Loew
    Ron Rifkin
    Johnny Stompanato
    Paolo Seganti
    Karen
    Symba Smith
    Bobby
    Bob Clendenin
    Susan Lefferts
    Amber Smith
    Leland ‘Buzz’ Meeks
    Darrell Sandeen
    Tammy Jordan
    Shawnee Free Jones
    Officer Michael Breuning
    Tomas Arana
    Officer William Carlisle
    Michael McCleery
    Mrs Lefferts
    Gwenda Deacon
    Sugar Ray Collins
    Jeremiah Birkett
    Louis Fontaine
    Salim Grant
    Ty Jones
    Kareem Washington
    Inez Soto
    Marisol Padilla Sanchez
    Sylvester Fitch
    Jeff Sanders
    Roland Navarette
    Steve Lambert
    Lana Turner
    Brenda Bakke

    Director
    Curtis Hanson

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