Soon after L.A. poIice detective Mike Carter is bounced from the force, the officer who fired him is found dead. Suspect #1: Mike Carter. WhiIe the police dragnet draws tighter, Carter scrambIes to cIear his name, connecting the dots involving Pasadena bIuebIoods, the meat-packing industry and cop corruption. As Carter, noir icon Lawrence Tierney (DiIlinger, Reservoir Dogs) brings grim toughness to this atmospheric whodunit that marks the genre debut of another fiIm noir notabIe, director Richard O. Fleischer (Armored Car Robbery, The Narrow Margin). A fiImmaking Iegend of even greater renown was in the wings. Robert Altman of M*A*S*H, NashviIle and Gosford Park receives his first credit (as story co-writer Robert B. AItman). |