Maybe I missed it, but is it explained why Stensland was killed at the Night Owl? It seems that the dirty cops could ha
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mobocracy — 9 years ago(June 23, 2016 09:16 AM)
If Stensland had still been a cop, and killed in the line of duty, while tragic, it would not have crated the intense focus a killing spree in the Night Owl didwhich then caused Dudley's plan to begin to unravel.
Usually a cop killed in the line of duty creates an extremely intense focus of investigation.
They may have structured a patsy who kills Stensland on the streets and "coincidentally" had an inside man on the scene that kills the patsy at the same time, but that would have been awfully public and there would have been a lot of questions asked that would be hard to answer. -
clickbait — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 11:47 AM)
blade101167 why would they make it look like Stensland was trying to make an arrest? Its a late reply I know but I just rewatched the movie and that wouldnt make any sense since Stensland got fired just a day or two before he was killed.
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jlird808 — 12 years ago(December 11, 2013 09:11 AM)
How the heck u gonna setup a fake "street arrest gone wrong" when Stensland is no longer a cop??!
What were u saying about illogical.and stupid??
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Ed in MO — 11 years ago(September 16, 2014 01:50 PM)
Actually it was Nite Owl, not Night Owl.
I think, just like Bloody Christmas and the hookers cut to look like movie stars, James Elroy based the Nite Owl massacre on a true L.A. murder story from the early 1950's. I searched the 'net for it but couldn't find it. Perhaps someone here knows more?
Incidentally, just in case anyone wants to visit the Nite Owl while in Los Angeles, it is really the J&J Sandwich Shop, located at 119 East 6th Street, directly across from Coles Restaurant. According to its owner, Curtis Hanson and crew spent three weeks shooting there in the summer of 1996, only they used cameras and not guns.
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GreenGoblinsOckVenom86 — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 09:51 PM)
I think the only thing that doesn't make sense is that Captain Dudley Smith would steal purses and then kill Ed Exley's father for trying to stop him from doing that. I mean I'm sure he made plenty of money as a cop so why steal women's purses?
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jnericsonx — 9 years ago(August 11, 2016 03:50 PM)
He didn't. "Rollo Tomasi" was the name Exley made up for his father's killer. The "one who got away with it". When Ed calls Dudley that, he's using the name as a reference, because at that moment, Dudley "was going to get away with it". Its a name used to refer to two different people entirely.