For two local young men, Pete Karras and Joey Recevo, the easiest way to find work after the war is by providing a little muscle for a local boss who runs a protection racket with the Mafia. The trouble with Pete Karras is that he is just too soft on his fellow immigrants, and the last thing the boss wants is for his mob to get soft. The boys have to teach Karras a painful lesson that he won't forget. Three years later Pete and Joey meet up once more and a final confrontation puts the meaning of friendship and honour to the ultimate test. "The Big Blowdown" is the first novel in Pelecanos' acclaimed "Washington Quartet".

    And now Doyle Redmond, a thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real, live trouble. On the lam is his soon-to-be-ex-wife's Volvo, he's running a family errand back in his boyhood home of West Table, Missouri -- the bloody heart of the red-dirt Ozarks. The law wants his big brother Smoke on a felony warrant, and Doyle's supposed to talk him into giving up. But Smoke is hunkered down in the hills with his partner, Big Annie, and hernineteen-year-old-daughter, Niagra, making other plans: they're about to harvest a profitable patch of homegrown marijuana.

    Although it was always intended to be a screenplay, it was first put to paper in prose as a glorified treatment which I enjoy calling a novella. The reasons for this circuitous writing process were twofold: first I was very intentionally cribbing from the novels of Dashiell Hammett, and thought that doing a prose pass imitating as best I could his style of writing would help shape the thing as a whole. Second, I did not own a professional screenwriting program, and had to format the whole damn thing using tabs in Word, so the less I goofed around with it in screenplay format the better." - Rian Johnson

    The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject.

    He was to to write a story about and take pictures of the most seductive actress of the day, Marilyn Monroe, on the set of her movie 'Niagara', which was shooting at Niagara Falls. Over the course of several days, Jock followed Marilyn on and off the set, shooting her at work, at play, and at rest. Just twenty-six old, Marilyn was on the brink of stardom, not yet disillusioned, she spoke openly to Jock of her dreams, hopes, and even fears.Jock's story 'Marilyn's Not So Menacing', appeared in Canada's 'Weekend Magazine' in August 1952. The photographs that he had taken were then filed away. Now, more than forty years later, these pictures have been rediscovered and many published for the first time ever in this magnificent, intimate book.The camera loved Marilyn, and Jock Carroll's photographs showcase her breathtaking beauty. They also reveal the deeper Marilyn, capturing the star in moments of seriousness and anxiety as well as laughter and teasing. In the accompanying text, Jock releases the thoughts and feelings that Marilyn confided to him during the time they spent together. The extraordinary combination of words and pictures reveals both the image that Marilyn confided to him during the time they spent together. The extraordinary combination of words and pictures reveals both the image that Marilyn knew exactly how to project and the complex nature of the woman behind the public persona.This stunning collection shows Marilyn carefully applying make-up, playfully practising how to smoke a cigarette, and taking direction on the set - always exuding the natural sensuality that made her one of the most compelling stars of this century. Jock Carroll's remarkable and candid photographs capture the essential contradiction of Marilyn - her quality of being at once knowing yet vulnerable - in a way that will make you, too, fall for Marilyn.

    This book teases out the effects of the Production Code, and the contributions of director Joseph H Lewis, writers MacKinlay Kantor and the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, and stars, Peggy Cummins and John Dall.

    Using these checklists will ensure that a proper and complete investigation is undertaken at the death scene.Many times, officers in the field come across evidence that they don't know how to collect properly. This versatile field guide contains an important appendix that provides collection of evidence procedures for field personnel, categorized by type of evidence. With the help of this book, no matter when you come into an investigation, you are ready to go. Indexed by type of crime for quick and easy reference, this guide is a must-have for anyone responding to a death investigation.

    In truth, the movies themselves were extremely tame by today's standards--replaced by hardcore pornography and the advent of VCRs. Grindhouse brims with rare posters and lobby cards for these outrageous subculture masterpieces. color photos. 180 b&w illustrations.