Description
Adapted from Glenn M. Stewart's stage musical, THE CITY CLUB,
Rachel Samuels's DARK STREETS is a smoky modern noir set in an
unnamed Depression-era American city. Gabriel Mann stars as Chaz
Davenport, the son of a wealthy and important public figure who
surprises everyone by committing suicide. A distraught Chaz, who
owns a hot new nightclub featuring a talented roster of singers and
dancers, soon discovers there was another side to his father's
life--and death--that he knew nothing about. At the same time, a
very strange police lieutenant Elias Koteas shows up, offering
Chaz protection from the loan sharks he owes big money to in
exchange for giving a shot to sexy chanteuse Madelaine Izabella
Miko. Chaz's growing interest in the femme fatale creates a wedge
between him and another of his singers, Crystal Bijou Phillips,
with whom he has an on-again, off-again relationship. While the
city keeps experiencing blackouts, scandal and murder threaten to
destroy everything around Chaz. In DARK STREETS, Samuels THE
SUICIDE CLUB creates an atmosphere of intrigue and mystery with
the help of Frank Bollinger's production design, Sharone Meir's
cinematography, and Maria Schicker's costumes, evoking such films
as CHINATOWN, THE COTTON CLUB, and THE BLACK DAHLIA. For the
soundtrack, James Compton, Tim Brown, and Tony De Meur wrote
original blues and R&B numbers that have been performed by a
remarkable group of legends, including Etta James, Natalie Cole,
Aaron Neville, Solomon Burke, and Chaka Khan, while B. B. King
contributes guitar to George Acogny's instrumental score. The film
is emceed by Prince Royale Toledo Diamond, who is also the emcee
of Chaz's nightclub.