Palmetto

After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer sentence if he doesn't prove the truth.

• based on novel or book
• kidnapping
• cigarette
• femme fatale
• scam
• writer
• framed for a crime
• set up
• temptation
• newspaper reporter
• ransom demand
• rich daughter
• neo-noir
• rich wife
• investigative reporter
• sucker
• kidnapping gone wrong