Encke King as Narrator (voice)

Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet (archive footage)

Jim Backus as Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Brenda Bakke as Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

Barbara O. Jones as Dorothy in Bush Mama (archive footage)

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of The Worlds (archive footage)

Richard Basehart as Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)

Hugh Beaumont as George Copeland in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

William Bendix as Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

Ann Blyth as Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (archive footage)

Jim Bouton as Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye (archive footage)

Grand L. Bush as FBI Agent Little Johnson in Die Hard (archive footage)

James Cagney as Tom Powers in The Public Enemy (archive footage)

Lon Chaney Jr. as Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage)

John Considine as Matthew Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage)

Bill Cosby as Al Hickey in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

Robert Culp as Frank Boggs in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

Howard Duff as Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)

Deanna Durbin as Penny in Three Smart Girls (archive footage)

Mark Frechette as Mark in Zabriskie Point (archive footage)

John Garfield as Nick Blake in Nobody Lives Forever (archive footage)

Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage)

Bruce Glover as Duffy in Chinatown (archive footage)

Marjoe Gortner as Joby in Earthquake (archive footage)

James Griffith as Jesse Quinn in Dragnet (archive footage)

Daria Halprin as Daria in Zabriskie Point (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy as Ollie (archive footage)

Jean Harlow as Gwen Allen in The Public Enemy (archive footage)

Bob Hope as Adam J. Niles in Bachelor in Paradise (archive footage)

Lauren Hutton as Georgia Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage)

Henry Jaglom as Dean in Venice/Venice (archive footage)

David Janssen as Steve in Two-Minute Warning (archive footage)

Peter Jason as Duty Sergeant in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)

Roy Jenson as Mulvihill in Chinatown (archive footage)

Jack Klugman as Sandman in Two-Minute Warning (archive footage)

Alan Ladd as Philip Raven in This Gun For Hire (archive footage)

Stan Laurel as Stan (archive footage)

Al Leong as Uli in Die Hard (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis as Jerome Littlefield in The Disorderly Orderly (archive footage)

Gary Lockwood as George Matthews in Model Shop (archive footage)

Perry Lopez as Escobar in Chinatown (archive footage)

Lyle Lovett as Detective DeLongpre in The Player (archive footage)

Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)

Guy Madison as Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage)

Joe Mantell as Walsh in Chinatown (archive footage)

Matt McCoy as Brett Chase in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (archive footage)

Sal Mineo as John 'Plato' Crawford in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)

Robert Morley as Sir Ambrose Abercrombie in The Loved Ones (archive footage)

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved Ones (archive footage)

Tom Neal as Al Roberts in Detour (archive footage)

Lloyd Nolan as Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)

Edmond O'Brien as Frank Bigelow in D.O.A (archive footage)

Carroll O'Connor as Lt. Christy French in Marlowe (archive footage)

Belinda Palmer as Katherine in Chinatown (archive footage)

Jürgen Prochnow as Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers (archive footage)

Tony Roberts as Rob in Annie Hall (archive footage)

Cliff Robertson as President in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)

Mitchell Ryan as The Priest in Two-Minute Warning (archive footage)

Ann Savage as Vera in Detour (archive footage)

Zachary Scott as Monte Beragon in Mildred Pierce (archive footage)

Paolo Seganti as Johnny Stompanato in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

James Stacy as Joe Brodnek in Flareup (archive footage)

Madeleine Stowe as Karen Carr in Unlawful Entry (archive footage)

David Strathairn as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd (archive footage)

William Talman as Dave Purvis in Armoured Car Robbery (archive footage)

Larenz Tate as Frankie Lymon in Why Do Fools Fall In Love (archive footage)

George Tobias as Al Doyle in Nobody Lives Forever (archive footage)

Lana Turner as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage)

Diane Venora as Justine in Heat (archive footage)

John Vernon as Mal Reese in Point Blank (archive footage)

Craig Wasson as Jake Scully in Body Double (archive footage)

Keenen Ivory Wayans as Det. Jim Campbell in The Glimmer Man (archive footage)

Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday in Dragnet (archive footage)

Raquel Welch as Michele in Flareup (archive footage)

James Whitmore as Lou Hopke in Shadow in The Sky (archive footage)

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (archive footage)

Mykelti Williamson as Det. Oliver Franklin in First Power (archive footage)

Jonathan Winters as Wilbur Glenworthy in The Loved Ones (archive footage)

Natalie Wood as Judy in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

Jenny Wright as Diz in Out of Bounds (archive footage)

Burt Young as Curly in Chinatown (archive footage)

Darrell Zwerling as Hollis Mulwray in Chinatown (archive footage)

Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)