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The Big Easy (1987)
Director: Jim McBride
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty and John Goodman
New Orleans homicide lieutenant Remy McSwain finds that he has two problems: the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force, in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue, only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.
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Director: Victor Schertzinger
Starring: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson and J. Carrol Naish
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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7.3
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Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, Rip Torn and Joan Blondell
An up-and-coming poker player travels to New Orleans and tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Jezebel (1938)
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter, Richard Cromwell and Henry O'Neill
Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850s. Julie Marsden is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and controlling of her fiancé Preston Dillard, a successful young banker. After causing a public scandal, Julie through her quest for social redemption on her own terms.
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Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Paul Stewart and Liliane Montevecchi
Having flunked graduation for a second time and needing cash to support his crabby, unemployed father, Danny Fisher takes a job as a singer in the King Creole nightclub - about the only joint around not run by smarmy crook Maxie Fields who wants him for his own place.
Danny gets on pretty well with Fields' girlfriend though. All this, plus his involvement with Fields' hoods and with innocent five-and-dime store assistant Nellie, means Danny finds his world closing in on him all ways round.
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Live and Let Die (1973)
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius W. Harris, David Hedison, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell and Madeline Smith
Several British agents have been murdered and James Bond is sent to New Orleans to investigate these mysterious deaths. He soon discovers that Dr. Kananga, international diplomat and secretive owner of a small Caribbean island is, in reality, notorious heroin-trafficking Harlem crime boss Mr. Big. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind's plan, he meets Solitaire, the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord; Tee Hee, Mr Big's henchman who has a claw for a hand; and Baron Samedi, the voodoo master. Bond must travel deep inside New Orleans, through the swamps and the bayous to complete his mission.
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Director: Elia Kazan
Screenplay: Tennessee Williams
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
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Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond and Albert Dekker
Sebastian Venable, the only son of wealthy New Orleans widow Violet Venable, dies while on vacation in Spain with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane. She is being evaluated by a psychiatric doctor and Mrs. Venable wants her niece lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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Tightrope (1984)
Directors: Richard Tuggle and Clint Eastwood
Screenplay: Richard Tuggle
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Jennifer Beck, Marco St. John and Rod Masterson
New Orleans detective Wes Block is assigned to the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Barbara Stanwyk, Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Anne Baxter, Juanita Moore and Jane Fonda
At the Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable, if tedious, life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession, he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty, with whom he travelled from Texas, and who is now the Doll House's newest recruit.
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A list of my favorite films set in the city of New Orleans.
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