John McColpin

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

Framed in the plot of a forty year-old movie, our man Clyde Belmondo adopts a Bogartian attitude and a snub-nosed .38 to navigate a path to justice, but quickly finds himself sucked into a quagmire where illusion masquerades as reality and trust disappears like Cuervo from a shot glass.