In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Production
Gorgeous period LA recreation, nuclear test backdrops.
Acting
Nolte's physicality towers over everyone literally.
Director
Lee Tamahori
Nick Nolte
Max Hoover
Melanie Griffith
Katherine Hoover
Chazz Palminteri
Elleroy Coolidge
Michael Madsen
Eddie Hall
Chris Penn
Arthur Relyea
Treat Williams
Fitzgerald
Jennifer Connelly
Allison Pond
Daniel Baldwin
McCafferty
Andrew McCarthy
Jimmy Fields
John Malkovich
General Thomas Timms
Kyle Chandler
Captain
Ed Lauter
Earl
Melinda Clarke
Cigarette Girl
Ernie Lively
Foreman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Hat Squad' was real: LA's 1950s robbery detectives actually wore fedoras as uniform. The film's nuclear test footage is authentic archival government footage.
Lee Tamahori made this between Once Were Warriors and Die Another Day—his American debut that critics savaged for being 'Chinatown without the script.' Box office death killed similar mid-budget noir for years.
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