High and Low
1963 · Drama · Crime
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Film / 2009
In the Electric Mist
Directed by
Bertrand Tavernier
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 …
The story
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.
Cast
Tommy Lee JonesDave Robicheaux
John GoodmanJulie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Peter SarsgaardElrod Sykes
Mary SteenburgenBootsie Robicheaux
Kelly MacdonaldKelly Drummond
Justina MachadoRosie Gomez
Ned BeattyTwinky LeMoyne
James GammonBen Hebert
Pruitt Taylor VinceLou Girard
Levon HelmGeneral John Bell Hood
Buddy GuySam 'Hogman' Patin
Julio Cesar CedilloCholo Manelli
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Bernard HockeMurphy Doucet
John SaylesMichael Goldman
Gary GrubbsSheriff
Walter BreauxBatist
Alana LockeAlafair Robicheaux
Adella GautierClothilde
Louis HerthumDoobie Patout
Ritchie MontgomeryClub Leon Bartender
Tony Molina Jr.Adonis Brown
Randy AustinSt. Clare Parish Deputy
Richard Andrew JonesSollie Rothberg
Andrea FrankleMargot
Rio Hackford
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