To Live and Die in L.A. (film)

To Live and Die in L.A.
To Live and Die in L.A.
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	William Friedkin
Screenplay by	William Friedkin; Gerald Petievich;
Based on	To Live and Die in L.A.; by Gerald Petievich
Produced by	Irving H. Levin; Bud S. Smith;
Starring	William Petersen; Willem Dafoe; John Pankow; Debra Feuer; John Turturro; Darlanne Fluegel; Dean Stockwell;
Cinematography	Robby Müller
Edited by	M. Scott Smith
Music by	Wang Chung
Production; companies	New Century Productions; United Artists; SLM Production Group;
Distributed by	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Release date	November 1, 1985 (United States);
Running time	116 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million
Box office	$17.3 million

To Live and Die in L.A. is a 1985 American neo-noir^[1]^[2] action crime thriller film directed and co-written by William Friedkin and based on the 1984 novel by former United States Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, who co-wrote the screenplay with Friedkin. The film features William Petersen, Willem Dafoe and John Pankow among others. Wang Chung composed and performed the original music soundtrack. The film tells the story of the lengths to which two Secret Service agents go to arrest a counterfeiter.

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^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5