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Theatrical Release: 2011-06-08 DVD Release: 1970-01-01 Torrent Release: 04-11-2011 by user ozzie85
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Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally...
Sinopsis by IMDBL.A. Noire tells the story of Cole Phelps, an LAPD detective who is haunted by his actions in World War II. Phelps joined the U.S. Marine Corps along with a man named Jack Kelso, with whom he often clashed over various matters regarding military procedure. The events of L.A. Noire take place after the end of World War II, following Phelps as he joins the force. Kelso has moved on to become a private investigator for an insurance company called California Fire and Life, hoping to put the demons of the war to rest.
Phelps, who was suffering from Custer syndrome, saw the war as America heading into a Golden Age, and he wished to become a hero in the war. Eventually, Phelps was sent to Okinawa with his unit, where he witnessed the death of his entire unit on Sugar Loaf Hill at the hands of Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa. When he witnessed this, Phelps went into shock and spent the whole battle curled up in a fox-hole, until he was found by Kelso the next morning. For his actions, Phelps was awarded the Silver Star and was promoted to Lieutenant, finally achieving status as a war-hero. However, Phelps was frowned upon by his unit and was seen as a coward. Phelps was ashamed of this throughout his life and he wished to prove his courage to the other Marines later on.
Near the end of the Battle of Okinawa, Phelps was given orders to clear out any houses or caves that may be housing Japanese soldiers. Eventually, Phelps came upon a large cave that he suspected to be holding soldiers, and he requisitioned a flamethrower from another squad in order to clear it out, wanting to "do it by the numbers" . When the flamethrower (a lumbering Oklahoman named Ira Hogeboom) showed up, he advanced upon the cave and had it burned. Soon after, Phelps and his squad realized the cave was a makeshift medical hospital for innocent Japanese civilians. Phelps, with his squad hysterical and panicking himself, ordered for his men to put the civilians down and then leave the cave. Pushed to the breaking point by Cole's orders, a young medic named Courtney Sheldon shoots Cole in the back. Kelso orders for Phelps to be taken away and then tells the men to never talk of what happened.
The game begins with Phelps on the Patrol Desk at the LAPD Wilshire Division 7 Police Station as a new member of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1947 Los Angeles, investigating a murder with his new partner, Officer Ralph Dunn. After catching the killer, Phelps discovers a pay-out notebook, which contains the name of an LAPD Homicide detective who is in charge of the case, Floyd Rose, whom the two dislike. Despite this, Phelps calls in the dispute, even though he thinks that the detective might be corrupt. Phelps then continues to work as a patrolman: the two stop a bank robbery-in-progress, catch a bail-jumper, and respond to the call of a shooting Downtown. After successfully interrogating the murder suspect and bringing him to justice, the Captain of the Homicide Desk, James Donnelly, gives Cole a promotion to the Traffic Desk of the LAPD as he had proven himself to be a good case worker.
After his promotion, Phelps is moved to the LAPD Central Division 1 Police Station, or Police Headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. Now a detective, Phelps receives his new partner, Detective Stefan Bekowsky. The two then solve a case involving a man who faked his death with a blood-stained car, catch a double-homicide suspect involved in a hit-and-run and stabbing, and finally bring to justice a film producer responsible for the statutory rape and attempted murder of a young aspiring actress and the attempted murder of an older actress married to a mobster. Following a shootout between a group of mobsters after the film producer at an old, abandoned film set in which Phelps and Bekowsky come out triumphant, Phelps' superior, Captain Gordon Leary gives Phelps a promotion to Burglary. Phelps also meets seedy and corrupt Vice Desk Detective Roy Earle on the desk, who introduces Cole to an emotionally damaged German Hollywood lounge singer, Elsa Lichtmann.
After serving six months at Burglary, Phelps is once again promoted, this time to Homicide, where he and his new veteran and old school partner, Detective Finbarr "Rusty" Galloway solve a series of very similar and gruesome murders committed by a serial killer: the same man who killed Elizabeth Short in The Black Dahlia murder that same year, known as the Black Dahlia, B.D., or the Werewolf Killer. At first, Galloway believes all the murders to have been committed by the victim's husband or boyfriend, and believes that each is only a copy-cat of the previous, with no connection at all. Finally, however, they realize, after arresting five innocent men, that the murders were committed by one man. The two then bring him to justice in a shootout at an abandoned church catacombs, following a trail of notes and clues left by the killer, who strung the two along. Once he is killed, Captain Donnelly dismisses the case and releases the innocent quietly, explaining that the killer is a relative of one of the most powerful politicians in the country, and that releasing the information could cause a massive scandal.
Phelps is then promoted to the Vice Desk, also known as Administrative or Ad Vice. He and his new partner, corrupt Chief Detective Roy Earle, of Ad Vice, succeed in halting Los Angeles's government-issued morphine and marijuana drug trade, and bringing down several drug dealers, including associates of mobster, Mickey Cohen, an associate of Al Capone. However, Phelps's past comes back to haunt him when a U.S. Marine from his former unit is found brutally shot dead. Phelps then discovers many of his former squad members are being assassinated as well, and after meeting with his old comrade, Jack Kelso, Phelps deduces that the men in his unit were selling morphine on the street after stealing a large supply from the U.S.S. Coolridge, a ship that carried Phelps' unit back to Los Angeles after the end of World War II. The men are being killed by the mob, who currently controls the drug trade and refuse to have competition. At the same time, Phelps begins a love affair outside of his marriage with Elsa, who Earle constantly berates. Because of the corrupt actions taken by the LAPD, Roy agrees to discloses Phelps' affair to get the public eye away from the corrupt members of city hall and the LAPD, including the mayor, police chief, and himself as a distraction. Because of this, prior to the conclusion of the drug trade by the members of his former unit, Phelps is removed from the case, suspended, and later demoted to Arson.
Phelps is kicked out of the house by his wife and moves in with Elsa, which causes him to be belittled by policemen and citizens alike due to the fact that Elsa is of strong German descent, and World War II is still a recent memory. Due to his actions, Phelps is demoted to the Arson Desk and becomes partners with cynical WWI veteran Herschel Biggs, an expert on fires. Trying to reattain his former glory, Phelps investigates a series of house fires which he believes to be caused by an arsonist working for a company called Elysian Fields Development. Elysian Fields is running a program known as "The Suburban Redevelopment Fund," which hopes to build houses for homecoming G.I.'s while obtaining more land. However, many of the houses made by the Suburban Redevelopment Fund keep burning down, and Phelps believes that Elysian Fields is burning down the houses as part of an insurance scam.
Initially, Phelps makes progress with Herschel on the case, but he is warned off by Roy Earle, who is on the Elysian payroll. Realising there is no way to investigate further by himself, Phelps manages to get Jack Kelso to work with him and Herschel (Kelso works as an insurance investigator for California Fire and Life.) Through their work, they manage to not only topple Elysian Fields, but also the morphine case shown in Vice (the money made from selling the morphine was being invested in the Suburban Redevelopment Fund.) They also discover that the Suburban Redevelopment Fund is much more than an insurance scam. It is a scam in which houses are overly insured by California Fire and Life, then cleared to make way for a new highway, resulting in complete recompense for the owners and a turnover of millions of dollars for the members of the fund. Eventually, Kelso finds out that the identity of the mysterious arsonist is Ira Hogeboom, the flamethrower in Cole's squad. After the war, Hogeboom returned home and tried fitting into normal life, but suffered from extreme guilt and mental anguish due to his actions. Elysian used him to burn down the houses, but he eventually became out of control, burning down houses that he was not told to burn and sometimes with the families still in the house. Hogeboom believed that by burning houses, he was helping people be together, and uniting them with God faster.
While hunting down the arsonist, Kelso finds out that Hogeboom has taken Elsa to the Los Angeles River Tunnels where he is trying to hide. Phelps and Kelso race to the River Tunnels and fight their way through corrupt policemen and thugs trying to silence all of them from uncovering the Suburban Redevelopment Fund scam. Due to a heavy rain, the waters in the sewer continue to rise to a dangerously high level. Eventually, they find Hogeboom and Elsa hiding from the thugs in the tunnels. Phelps, Kelso, and Elsa flee from the tunnels after Kelso puts Hogeboom out of his misery. Eventually, the trio finds an open manhole that Hershel uses to lift Elsa up from the surface. As the water begins to rise, Phelps voluntarily lifts Kelso to the surface as well, sacrificing himself (as there is no one else to help Phelps) and before a current sweeps him through the tunnels, causing him to apparently drown in the torrent; He says a final goodbye to his comrades.
The game cuts to days later, Phelps is ?buried? and all of Phelps' partners attend along with Kelso, Elsa, and his ex-wife and children. As Roy Earle delivers the eulogy, it is shown that many of the corrupt police officers and politicians are in attendance. Mid-way through Roy's eulogy, Elsa stands up and berates him for belittling Cole's memory, and she subsequently walks out. Before going after her, Herschel tells Kelso that he (Kelso) was never Cole's friend. Kelso replies that they were also never enemies. Hershel tells him that Cole knew that and then walks out as well. An end credits sequence shows the members of the Sixth Platoon on the way home from China on the USS Coolridge, planning the morphine heist. While reading the paper, the soldiers learn of Cole's success as a police officer, and become jealous that they are not remembered as heroes in such a way. Kelso tells the other Marines that no matter how anyone else views them, he will always remember them as heroes, but that if they steal the morphine and go down a path of crime, they will become nothing. Unfortunately, the heist goes as planned, laying the foundation for much of the game's story.
