Films featuring
Graham Beckel

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
★★★★★

I admire you as a policeman, particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job.

It’s probably appropriate that the film adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel L.A. Confidential contains a fictional TV series that’s an obvious riff on Dragnet. This film seems like it wants to expose every dirty secret about the LAPD that Jack Webb ever whitewashed.

L.A. Confidential

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