Richard Basehart

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

A whirlwind tour through Los Angeles' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.

Following his Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rogue, the great John Huston directed this adaptation of the Herman Melville classic.