Evening Short: Johnny Diamond - Private Eye

Film: Johnny Diamond - Private Eye

Director: John Wellbeloved
Running time: 8:50
Released: 2006

Shot in B&W, this Film Noir set in Los Angeles, circa 1949, gives us a quick glimpse into the life of a lonely Private Eye, Johnny Diamond. Diamond is a tough guy WWII Veteran Private Eye. He is working as a body guard for a well-to-do Widow in the Hollywood Hills. It is night and an intruder enters the house. Diamond fights off and kills the intruder who is none other than the Widow's supposed dead husband who had come back to kill his wife. After leaving the mansion in the hills, he drives back to his small room Downtown and contemplates his future. He decides to leave the Private Eye field to find a quieter life, but is soon drawn back into the dark underworld of L.A. after a visit from a beautiful young movie starlet, Rochelle Harlow.