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1. ‘Easy street’
Film noir opening sequence
Treatment Sheet.
By Jack Waterman.

2. Contents Page
Cast List
Plot overview
Technical Information
Characters and Costumes

3. Cast List –
Daniel Gaudi- Jack Waterman
Ricky Martel- Mathew Bray
Christina- Fiona Walker
Chief Michaels- Alex Hester
Irish (Barman)- Ethan Laing
Hysterical wife- Chloe Leighton
Operator- Karen Waterman
Waitress- Chloe Leighton
Railroad worker- Oliver stoker
Father- Declan Doyle
Mother- Rhianne Bowes
Plot Overview –
Leaving a bar finishing a bottled drink Daniel Gaudi is seen on a walk around his
new neighborhood. His inner monologue describes his lament at having to leave
New York where he was a very high ranking police official and was demoted due
to insubordination and maverick behavior. On his walk he looks up at the houses
on the street and has a flashback to his childhood this cues a monologue about
his violent childhood and how he resents this town the town of his birth. As he
walks he hears a scream around a corner. He runs to find himself lost looking out
at the sea. He brushes the event off suddenly gathering himself and going into a
bar. It is clear at this point that the detective is mentally deficient and hears
things. While in the bar he orders a scotch on the rocks and a haze of smoke
covers his face. The next shot occurs the following morning. The character finds
himself in an office confronted by the police chief who introduces Gaudi to his
new partner who he resents saying he works solo. Begrudgingly the pair go to a
crime scene near the location of his walk on the first night. He inspects the
bloody corpse of an elderly man and interviews his wife who is fearful of him and
tells him she saw a monstrous apparition run from the crime scene. She
describes his rough height and build and the detectives take information from
the crime scene taking note of some foot prints size 11 and a bloody glass bottle.
Montez leaves the scene to report to the chief. Gaudi however says he needs to
think the case over. He retires to a bar where he drinks and smokes as the
camera pans across to a woman who approaches him to talk she introduces
herself as Christina and flirts with him she says that she lives next door to a man
who got murdered and was glad accusing the man of being sleazy and no good
she teases the man saying she’d saw him last night from her apartment window
and jokingly accuses him. She reveals that she’d just moved to town, hates it and
will be leaving soon she flirts with him teasing him about “lost chances” and
leaves dropping a bar napkin with her number on it. He puts it in his jacket stubs
his cigarette, gets up and leaves.

4. Technical Information –
Location:
Odd bar (Church street Hartlepool)
Church street (exterior)
Marina docks
My house (interior)
Sequence length:
Roughly 15 minutes
Props:
Bottle
Broken bottle (the same one)
Cigarettes
Alcohol and glasses
Notepads
Coroners set up
Police badges
Characters and Costumes –
Daniel Gaudi- brown pin stripe suit and waistcoat with a matching trilby and
black shoes
Montez- a similar costume in a dark blue color
Michaels- brown double breasted suit and brown tie
Christina- red showy dress dark makeup and rouged lips. Heavy jewelry and high
heals
Irish- white shirt and waistcoat with bands at the elbows
Wife- simple rags
Waitress- 1940’s waitress uniform
Mother and father- typical 1920’s everyday wear. Light shirt and trousers and a
high cut dress