Deadly Ground is a short film noir thriller made in Scotland. Taking influence and inspiration from classic American Film Noirs including The Big Sleep, Gun Crazy and This Gun For Hire, as well as modern thrillers including Heat and Drive. Shot in stark black and white with a tense and uneasy tone, the film is quick paced and follows several characters through a world of shadows and faceless corporate greed. Rick (Jamie Forrest) and Eve (Jamie Melrose) are a young couple of grifters, working a job in Glasgow, Scotland. Rick is a skilled burglar and can infiltrate anywhere, Eve is a tactician and manipulative con artist. Hired by underground journalist Mack (David West) to steal incriminating documents from a Private Military and Security Company employee; Sinclair (Mark Wood) they are faced with consequences they are not used to from previous, smaller jobs. Mercilessly hunted by the Company's 'fixer' Murnau (Nick Cheales), they must find a way back to each other by deviating from their careful plans. An ambitious and exciting film, Deadly Ground is intended to feel both familiar and fresh, placing the Greek myth of Prometheus in a new context, somewhere between Depression Era movies of the 40's and 50's and a near future dystopia of a world controlled by Corporations with no morals.