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Russell Crowe Officer Bud White. Although he catapulted to superstardom with 2000’s Gladiator, Australian actor Russell Crowe put his name on the map with L.A. Confidential. Director Curtis Hanson discovered Crowe when watching Romper Stomper, who starred as a member of a Neo-Nazi gang. Hanson thought he was "repulsive and scary, but ...
Rated: 4/4 Oct 20, 2021 Full Review Dimitris Passas PopMatters L.A. Confidential‘s representation of a long-gone era in Los Angeles is exemplary, and the 1950s are enlivened on screen in an ...
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L.A. Confidential: Directed by Curtis Hanson. With Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell. As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
LA in the 50's: someone's killing imprisoned mob boss Mickey Cohen's gang. The police, led by Captain Dudley, convince wiseguys from Jersey, Cleveland, and elsewhere to go home. Rich developer, Pierce Patchett, runs a stable of high-class hookers who are ringers for movie stars. The plot to replace Cohen blindsides three plainclothes cops ...
Confidential was a key magazine of the 1950s, a monthly that sold millions of copies with its seamy exposes of celebrity drugs and sex. I found it on my dad's night table and read it breathlessly, the stories of reefer parties, multiple divorces, wife-swapping and "leading men'' who liked to wear frilly undergarments. The magazine sank in a sea of lawsuits, but it created a genre; the trash ...
Full overview of all actors and actresses in the film L.A. Confidential (1997)
May 15, 2020 · L.A. Confidential Movie Cast. Kevin Spacey as Jack Vincennes. Russell Crowe as Wendell "Bud" White. Guy Pearce as Edmund "Ed" Exley. Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken. James Cromwell as Capt. Dudley Smith. Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens. David Strathairn as Pierce Morehouse Patchett.
