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Start giftingL.A. Confidential - Abridged
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Learn moreChristmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, the Second L.A. Quartet: Perfidia, and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover. These novels have won numerous honors and were international bestsellers. Ellroy currently lives in Los Angeles.
David Strathairn was born in 1949 in San Francisco, California. After attending Williams College and hitchhiking across the country to perform in various local theaters, he made his film debut in the highly regarded Return of the Secaucus Seven. Over the years that followed Strathairn built up his resume with an impressive collection of supporting roles. Among his credits are Lovesick, Silkwood, L.A. Confidential, Limbo, We Are Marshall, Lincoln, and many others. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance in Good Night, and Good Luck.
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, the Second L.A. Quartet: Perfidia, and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover. These novels have won numerous honors and were international bestsellers. Ellroy currently lives in Los Angeles.
David Strathairn was born in 1949 in San Francisco, California. After attending Williams College and hitchhiking across the country to perform in various local theaters, he made his film debut in the highly regarded Return of the Secaucus Seven. Over the years that followed Strathairn built up his resume with an impressive collection of supporting roles. Among his credits are Lovesick, Silkwood, L.A. Confidential, Limbo, We Are Marshall, Lincoln, and many others. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance in Good Night, and Good Luck.