A fight to the death between two pit bulls introduces a dog-eat-dog underworld of violence, drugs and gangs.
Again, clear the statutes, eliminate the gambling underworld of violence and free the cops to pursue real criminals.
The writing is never more than efficient but the setting remains perennial: the comfortable, carpeted, fire-lit Baker Street sitting room shared by Holmes and Watson, the paradoxically womblike world of a Victorian bachelor set above an anarchic underworld full of violence and immorality.
Certainly, I was unmoved by the tale of Rudie, a homeless, mixed-race girl (Remi Wilson) searching for her birth mother while attempting to navigate an underworld of drugs, violence, prostitution and, most distressing of all, blast after blast of weak reggae from UB40.
This didn't mean their films avoided the sleazy underworld of sex and violence.
In the ever-so-slightly art house-tinged thriller Cold Comes the Night, a Polish bagman turned kidnapper tells an apparently helpless motel proprietor that she has no idea what she's up against in his underworld of crime and violence.
"Cold in July" Director: Jim Mickle; Screenwriters: Jim Mickle, Nick Damici Cast Michael C. Hall, Don Johnson, Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw, Nick Damici, Wyatt Russell Afterr killing a home intruder, a small town Texas man's life unravels into a dark underworld of corruption and violence.
"Caught in an underworld of illegality and violence, trafficked and sexually exploited children virtually disappear.
The issue in that case was the political violence and dangerous underworld in Venezuela.
