Mulholland Falls (1996) on Netflix
1950s Los Angeles: a young woman's body is found crushed at a construction site. The special LAPD squad on the case finds she is Allison Pond, whom its leader, Max Hoover, knew.
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Plot summary
Led by Max Hoover, a four-man LAPD squad keeps organized crime out of Los Angeles by whatever means the job requires, legal or not. A young woman's body is found crushed at a remote residential development site; the coroner says it appears she fell from a cliff, though there is no cliff nearby. She is Allison Pond, a prostitute Hoover knew well, an affair he ended and kept from his wife, Katherine. A film of Allison with General Thomas Timms, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, is delivered to the squad; she had not known she was filmed, and more reels exist. Hoover's partners work through the military's closed world to find out who killed Allison and why, with the film able to end his marriage if Katherine sees it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mulholland Falls (1996)
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- The film's four-man LAPD detective squad was based on the real-life Gangster Squad, a unit known for using murder to control its jurisdiction with the police chief's tacit approval.
