Wendy visits him on death row and thanks him for avenging her sister. He is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Corrupt cops threaten to kill his mother to get him to confess to killing Roark, Kevin and their victims. He is then shot and captured by his guards. Kevin was the cardinal's ward the two men ate the prostitutes to "consume their souls". He confronts Cardinal Roark, who confesses his part in the murders. Once he convinces Wendy that he is not the killer, the two return to the farm where Marv traps and kills Kevin. Marv goes to Old Town, Sin City's prostitute-run red-light district, to learn more about Goldie and is captured by her twin sister, Wendy. Marv kills the cops except for their leader, who reveals Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark arranged for Goldie's murder. They escape the basement, but Lucille is shot by a squad of corrupt cops. She tells Marv that the killer is a cannibal named Kevin and that Goldie was a prostitute. He awakens in the basement to find Lucille has been captured after looking into his story. Marv goes to the Roark family farm and is subdued by the silent stalker who killed Goldie. As he leaves, Marv is attacked by a woman who looks like Goldie, which he dismisses as a hallucination. Marv interrogates several informants, working up to a corrupt priest, who reveals that the Roark family was behind the murder. His lesbian parole officer, Lucille, advises him to give up, for Marv may have imagined it all due to his "condition". He flees the frame-up as the police arrive, vowing to avenge her death. Hartigan passes out, reasoning his death is a fair trade for the girl's life.Īfter a one-night stand, Marv awakens to find Goldie has been killed while he slept. As the sirens approach, Bob leaves and Nancy lies down in Hartigan's lap. Bob, now recovered, shoots Hartigan in the back. Hartigan confronts Junior and shoots off his ear, hand and genitals. Hartigan, fighting pain from a bad heart, heads into the warehouse where Roark Junior is holding Nancy. Bob tries to convince Hartigan to walk away Hartigan knocks him out. Junior is the son of Senator Roark, who has bribed Hartigan's corrupt partner, Bob, to cover up his son's crimes. On the docks of Sin City, aging police officer John Hartigan tries to stop serial child-killer Roark Junior from raping and killing his fourth known victim, eleven-year-old Nancy Callahan. He says he will never know what she was running from but that he will cash her check in the morning. The two share a kiss and he shoots her she dies in his arms. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save her. The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. Plot "The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)" A sequel also directed by Miller and Rodriguez was released in 2014, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, but failed to match the critical and commercial success of its predecessor. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping". Sin City opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique color processing which rendered most of the film in black and white while retaining or adding color for selected objects. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Elijah Wood, and featuring Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Devon Aoki, Carla Gugino, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen, Nick Stahl, and Makenzie Vega among others. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story "The Customer is Always Right" which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. That Yellow Bastard focuses on an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The Big Fat Kill follows a private investigator who gets caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police and the mob. The Hard Goodbye is about an ex-convict who embarks on a rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer. Much of the film is based on the first, third, and fourth books in Miller's original comic series. It is based on Miller's graphic novel of the same name. Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City) is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez.
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