Man Against the Mob (also known as Trouble in the City of Angels) is a 1988 NBC television movie directed by Steven Hilliard Stern, starring George Peppard, Kathryn Harrold and Max Gail. Man Against the Mob is a variation on the 1981 theatrical feature True Confessions. This was designed around the actor George Peppard as a tough LA cop in the late 1940s. A 1989 TV-movie followup, Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders is a sequel that also stars Peppard.