A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
Episodes
A dissatisfied boxer's wife leaves her husband for another man. But she wants to give the marriage another chance. However, fate touches Matt Cordell when he is framed for a murder.
Johnny Lamb is an elevator man by day and a hit man by night. He's very good at his job; he's a professional. The Boss sends him on a job that makes Lamb confront his conscience, maybe for the first time. The episode has interesting male relationships seldom touched in hard-boiled novels nor found in film noir.
A police detective investigates the untimely death of a nightclub dancer but the investigation is called off by the brass. The problem: the killer is still loose.
In the noir world you never know how certain people can change your life forever. A woman is transformed when she falls for a wise guy.
In pure noir fashion, where fatalism plays it's untimely hand, Hollywood actor Rich Thurber gets off the bus and enters a bar to take drink. The bar is then abruptly taken over by bank thieves. The hoods mistake Rich for a local politician and take him and Carol, the daughter of Los Angeles' top cop, for a ride they won't soon forget. Look for a surprising and riveting end.
It's the nature of noir never to know who your friends are. A mobster is hiding out in a hotel room and one by one his thug friends abandon him.
A well known socialite is missing and the famed shamus, the Continental Op, is on the trail in this story that takes place in 1929. The case takes the Continental Op to blackmail and murder.
Famed Los Angeles private dick Marlowe investigates a series of murders in noir fashion.
In a tale that takes place in south-central Los Angeles, Fearless Jones and Paris Minton become involved with a femme fatale nightclub jazz singer. They try to help out Deletha by planning to steal her singing contract from the nightclub manager. Not all go as the wily sleuths planned.
