LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
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PRINTING PRESS The latest issue of Hush-Hush flies through. On the cover: "Gail Russell Caught In Love Nest. Nymph or No?" INT. CITY JAIL - DAY Bud White flips through today's booking slips, finds one that's interesting. Reading to himself... BUD Domestic. Assault and battery. Containment Squad strong-arms, BREUNING and CARLISLE pause as they pass. CITY JAIL - HALLWAY CARLISLE Ready to go, Bud? BUD I'll be there in five minutes. Bud walks to a door covered in sheet metal. He opens it to reveal a holding tank with a burly, jumpsuited PRISONER. BUD I hear you like to hit women. PRISONER My wife. She's dropping charges so it's none of your business. Bud enters, closes the door behind him. A beat, we hear the sounds of FISTS ON FLESH. It's Bud's business now. INT. BEVERLY HILLS MANSION - STUDY - NIGHT Deuce Perkins (the Mickey Cohen narcotics lieutenant seen earlier) stands at the bookshelf. He pulls down books to reveal a shoe box. He sets it on his desk, pulls back the cover to reveal several bags of white powder. Heroin. A BRANCH SNAPS outside. Perkins opens a drawer, fishes a revolver. Turning off the light, he heads to the window. His finger parts the curtains. At that instant, he staggers, falls as GUNFIRE rips into him. The heroin just sits there on the desk.
EXT. McNEIL PENITENTIARY - DAY Grim-faced guards scan the yard from machine-gunned towers. INT. McNEIL PENITENTIARY - VISITOR BOOTH - DAY Mickey Cohen sits across from visitor Johnny Stompanato. Cohen is going off the handle. COHEN What do you mean Deuce Perkins got clipped last night?! STOMPANATO They shot him in his library. COHEN I don't want a floor plan; I want to know who! Who's taking the ticket for this, Johnny? STOMPANATO Nobody. At least not yet. COHEN And what about the merchandise Deuce was holding for me? STOMPANATO Gone. Not a trace. COHEN Some ferstunkener is moving in and we don't know who?! Maybe we should ask Hedda Hopper! As "STRANGER IN PARADISE" ENDS, so does the MONTAGE. INT. BRIEFING ROOM - AD VICE - DAY Addressing the squad, a no-nonsense VICE CAPTAIN picks up a stack of magazines. VICE CAPTAIN Picture-book smut, gentlemen. There's been a bunch of it found at collateral crime scenes lately. Mostly narcotics and prostitution collars. As the Vice Capt. hands it out for the men to examine, new member Jack Vincennes arrives late.
- Page 1 and 2: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by Brian Helgelan
- Page 3 and 4: INT. THE MOCAMBO - NIGHT A CLUB PHO
- Page 5 and 6: COHEN Bullshit. What's the charge?
- Page 7 and 8: Without warning, Bud grabs Stompana
- Page 9 and 10: The Actress storms off. Jack looks
- Page 11 and 12: HUDGEONS Remember: you heard it fir
- Page 13 and 14: MEEKS Cut me some slack. I used to
- Page 15 and 16: DUDLEY This way, gentlemen. Dudley'
- Page 17 and 18: DUDLEY Would you be willing to rig
- Page 19 and 20: OPERATOR (V.O.) (filtered) Please h
- Page 21 and 22: Cops block Exley's way. As Bud look
- Page 23 and 24: EXLEY The public demands justice, s
- Page 25 and 26: LOEW But my office has a stellar wi
- Page 27 and 28: CLERK Edmund J. Exley to chambers.
- Page 29 and 30: BUD He helped me out once. That's a
- Page 31: with a gold shovel. Pierce Patchett
- Page 35 and 36: INT. HUSH-HUSH MAGAZINE OFFICE - DA
- Page 37 and 38: STENSLAND Don't look so down in the
- Page 39 and 40: meat wagons cut off by the crown. A
- Page 41 and 42: FLATNOSE I don't know. No one knows
- Page 43 and 44: BUD What happened? EXLEY Someone he
- Page 45 and 46: CHIEF Enough on that. Gentlemen, ju
- Page 47 and 48: PATCHETT I am. Are you soliciting f
- Page 49 and 50: PATCHETT Wait. Our deal still holds
- Page 51 and 52: JACK We're looking for three colore
- Page 53 and 54: BUD You use words like that, you mi
- Page 55 and 56: BUD You look better than Veronica L
- Page 57 and 58: EXLEY Quiet. I'm ranking officer he
- Page 59 and 60: EXLEY Did one of the officers work
- Page 61 and 62: EXLEY Why were you throwing clothes
- Page 63 and 64: EXLEY Larry, he called you queer. H
- Page 65 and 66: BUD One in six. Where's the girl? E
- Page 67 and 68: EXLEY How's it going to look on you
- Page 69 and 70: ELEVATOR Coates watches as the elev
- Page 71 and 72: INT. STATE ASSEMBLY - CHAMBER - DAY
- Page 73 and 74: DUDLEY Breaking a big case sticks y
- Page 75 and 76: Yeah. JACK Jack doesn't really feel
- Page 77 and 78: REYNOLDS I can't do it. HUDGEONS Ta
- Page 79 and 80: INT. LYNN BRACKEN'S (1736 NOTTINGHA
- Page 81 and 82: INT. AFTER HOURS CLUB - NIGHT The B
EXT. McNEIL PENITENTIARY - DAY<br />
Grim-faced guards scan the yard from machine-gunned<br />
towers.<br />
INT. McNEIL PENITENTIARY - VISITOR BOOTH - DAY<br />
Mickey Cohen sits across from visitor Johnny Stompanato.<br />
Cohen is going off the handle.<br />
COHEN<br />
What do you mean Deuce Perkins got<br />
clipped last night?!<br />
STOMPANATO<br />
They shot him in his library.<br />
COHEN<br />
I don't want a floor plan; I want<br />
to know who! Who's taking the<br />
ticket for this, Johnny?<br />
STOMPANATO<br />
Nobody. At least not yet.<br />
COHEN<br />
And what about the merchandise<br />
Deuce was holding for me?<br />
STOMPANATO<br />
Gone. Not a trace.<br />
COHEN<br />
Some ferstunkener is moving in and<br />
we don't know who?! Maybe we<br />
should ask Hedda Hopper!<br />
As "STRANGER IN PARADISE" ENDS, so does the MONTAGE.<br />
INT. BRIEFING ROOM - AD VICE - DAY<br />
Addressing the squad, a no-nonsense VICE CAPTAIN picks up<br />
a stack of magazines.<br />
VICE CAPTAIN<br />
Picture-book smut, gentlemen.<br />
There's been a bunch of it found<br />
at collateral crime scenes lately.<br />
Mostly narcotics and prostitution<br />
collars.<br />
As the Vice Capt. hands it out for the men to examine,<br />
new member Jack Vincennes arrives late.
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