Sentences with phrase «police corruption tale»
Freelancers deals with a typical, ultra cliched, highly predictable police corruption tale and Fire is about a firefighter (Duhamel) who witnesses a murder and enters the Witness Protection program.
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According to its findings on the police and army atrocities, «it was a terrible tale of sadistic torture, ruthless killings, fake encounters, calculated ill - treatment of women and children, and corruption and graft on a large scale.»
A tale as old as time Corruption in NYC is nothing new, from the case of police officer Frank Serpico which led to the investigations of the Knapp Commission in the 70s, to former Assemb.
In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing — a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press — and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood.
It seemed like a dream come true as he worked alongside box office names Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey in EDISON FORCE (2005), a tale of a young journalist who uncovers a web of corruption inside a unit of the Edison police department.
The incomparable Sidney Lumet began an unofficial trilogy examining corruption in the New York police with this true - life tale of Frank Serpico, an office who exposed one of the force's biggest bent - cop scandals.
Based on James Ellroy's novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand, as well as how public decisions are dictated by public image, strange bedfellows, and the allure of the Hollywood glamour industry.