Today’s movie is a crime drama with a scene that happens on
March 3. watch it tonight and enjoy.
DARK BLUE
On March 3, 1991 [00:40 to 2:01]
Rodney King is beaten by the LAPD. We jump ahead to the start of the trial of
the officers involved. Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell rob a Korean convenience
store, but steal a safe in a back room, killing four customers who come in and
wound another. Meanwhile Sergeant Eldon Perry and his partner, Detective Bobby
Keough face a shooting board. They are cleared and Perry is told he is to be
promoted to Lieutenant. We see that Orchard and Sidwell work for Commander Jack
Van Meter, who is Perry’s mentor on the force, and they give him the $150
thousand taken from the safe. Van Meter asks Perry to investigate the 4
murders. Keough has sex with a woman who is a cop but neither reveals or knows
the other’s name. We learn she is Sergeant Beth Williamson, who works for
Assistant Chief Arthur Holland, who does not believe Perry or Keough’s
testimony at the shooting board, thinks they’re dirty cops and is determined to
get them. Perry’s investigation uncovers that the Korean storeowner also owned
a strip club that made lots of cash. They learn the bagman is missing and find
him dead. Beth learns that her new sex partner is Keough. The wounded witness
says the guys were one white and one black. Perry suspects Orchard and Sidwell,
but Van Meter tells him to pin it on two other guys. Perry blackmails a DA and
a judge into signing a search warrant on two other ex-cons. Perry gives Keough
photos of Beth and Holland having sex. After a confrontation where Beth tells
him Holland is going to bring him down and that her affair with Holland was 5
years ago, Keough delivers the photos to Holland’s wife, who now wants a
divorce. Perry raids the home of one of the ex-cons and pressures Keough into
killing the man, even though he is no threat. Perry returns home and finds his
wife is moving out. Keough is shaken by killing an innocent man and goes to
Beth and confesses to her and later Holland. Van Meter orders Orchard and
Sidwell to kill Perry. Van Meter gives Perry their address and tells them a
witness who can prove Perry and Keough lied at the shooting board lives there.
Perry learns this is Orchard and Sidwell’s address, but goes there anyway.
Keough learns that physical evidence links Orchard and Sidwell to the Korean
killings and goes there with Beth to take them into protective custody before
Perry can kill them. On the way they hear that the officers in the Rodney King
case have been acquitted. Orchard and Sidwell end up killing Keough. Perry
tracks them. The White Sidwell is
killed by rioters and Perry arrests Orchard. Perry goes to the Police Academy
where he was to receive his lieutenant’s badge. Instead he confesses his crimes
and implicates Van Meter. He is arrested by Holland. The riots sweep over LA.
A very violent film. A good
exploration of police corruption. Well worth watching.
Race and Justice:
Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided by Jewelle Taylor
Gibbs (Jossey Boss Publishers,
San Francisco, 1996) at page 29 and the movie at 1:02 give the date of Rodney
King’s arrest.
Producers - David Blocker,
Caldecot Chubb, Sean Daniel and James Jacks
Director - Ron Shelton
Screenplay - David Ayer and James
Ellroy
Runtime – 1 hour 58 minutes
Released – December 21, 2002
Starring –
Kurt Russell as Sergeant Eldon Perry
Scott Speedman as Detective Bobby Keough
Michael Michele as Sergeant Beth Williamson
Brendan Gleeson as Commander Jack Van Meter
Ving Rhames as Assistant Chief Arthur Holland
Kurupt as Darryl Orchard
Dash Mihok as Gary Sidwell
Jonathan Banks as James Barcomb
Lolita Davidovich as Sally Perry
Khandi Alexander as Janelle Holland
Dana Lee as Henry Kim
Master P as Maniac
Kaila Yu as Asian Stripper
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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