Longtime Screengrab readers may recall that back in the day I wrote a Movie Moment column on William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A., the source of last week's quiz. However, part of me couldn't resist using it again here, not least because that final line really is perfect. Friedkin's 1985 policier is in many ways a West Coast equivalent to his Oscar-winning The French Connection, highlighting the sunlit horizontally-sprawling landscape of Los Angeles in much the same way its prdecessor captured the feel of seventies New York. To Live and Die in L.A. is a model of brutal efficiency, up and and including that classic final line. Congrats to those who got it.
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