“L.A. Confidential” quotes
(1997)
Title L.A. Confidential
Year 1997
Director Curtis Hanson
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Year 1997
Director Curtis Hanson
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Plot – In Los Angeles during the early 50s, a great desire to travel, to have fun and to do business dominates people’s life, even because of television, a new tool. The ambitious Ed Exley, the funny Jack Vincennes and the naive Bud White are three policemen trying in different ways to make a career and to be successful. Jack arrests celebrities from the entertainment world thanks to Sid, an unscrupulous magazine editor. An incorruptible cop who believes that those who make mistakes should pay denounces the violent excesses of some colleagues during Christmas night, getting a promotion. Bud witnesses the death of his colleague who was supposed to retire. He starts an intense investigation which eventually leads him to criminal plots that involve the criminals and the police. Lynn is the go-between, a girl who looks like Veronica Lake and is part of a team of look-alike actresses led by tycoon Pierce. The circle narrows and Bud and Ed face a terrible truth.
All actors – Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn, Ron Rifkin, Matt McCoy, Paul Guilfoyle, Paolo Seganti, Elisabeth Granli, Sandra Taylor, Steve Rankin, Graham Beckel, Allan Graf, Precious Chong, Symba, Bob Clendenin, Lennie Loftin, Will Zahrn, Amber Smith, Darrell Sandeen, Michael Warwick, Simon Baker, Shawnee Free Jones, Matthew Allen Bretz, Thomas Rosales Jr., Shane Dixon, Norman Howell, Brian Lally, Don Pulford, Chris Short, John Mahon, Tomas Arana, Michael McCleery, George Yager, Jack Conley, Ginger Slaughter, Jack Knight, John H. Evans, Gene Wolande, Brian Bossetta, Michael Chieffo, Gwenda Deacon, Mike Kennedy, Ingo Neuhaus, Robert Harrison, Jim Metzler, Robert Barry Fleming, Jeremiah Birkett, Salim Grant, Karr Washington, Noel Evangelisti, Marisol Padilla Sánchez, Jeff Sanders, Steven Lambert, Jordan Marder, Gregory White, April Breneman, Lisa Worthy, Beverly Sharpe, Colin Mitchell, John Slade, Brenda Bakke, Kevin Maloney, Patrice Walters, Rebecca Klingler, Irene Roseen, Scott Eberlein, David St. James, Bodie Newcomb, Jeff Austin, Robert Foster, Kevin Patrick Kelly, Henry Marder, Monty McKee, Henry Meyers, Michael Ossmann, Dick Stilwell, Jess Thomas, Robert Thompson, Jody Wood, Jonathan Adler, William Boyd, Hennen Chambers, Priscilla Cory, T.K. Durham, Deborah Kerr, Virginia Mayo, Scott McKinley, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Ortega, Gilbert Rosales, Nectar Rose, Jane Russell, Rocco Salata, Frank Sinatra, Vern Urich, Sam P. Whitehead, Dell Yount
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“You may well reap the benefit, Edmund, but are you truly prepared to be despised within the department?”
- Dudley Smith: Bud White is a valuable officer.
- Ed Exley: White's a mindless thug.
- Dudley Smith: No, Edmund, he's just a man who can answer "Yes" to those questions I've asked you from time to time.“I see Bud because he doesn't know how to disguise who he is. I see Bud for all the ways he's different from you.”
“- Dick Stensland: I got a hot date.
- Bud White: Yeah? Who is she and what did you arrest her for?”“- Lynn Bracken: He takes a cut of our earnings and invests it for us. He doesn't let us use narcotics and he doesn't abuse us. Can your policeman's mentality grasp those contradictions?
- Bud White: He had you cut to look like Veronica Lake.
- Lynn Bracken: No. I'm really a brunette, but the rest is me.”
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