Short was supposedly seen drinking at Boardner’s bar a couple of blocks south on Cherokee on the night she died (though that's been disputed), and Boardner’s itself makes an appearance later on. The bedroom and corridors of the house were among the few sets built for the film but the exterior and the lobby are 1842 North Cherokee Avenue, south of Franklin Avenue in Hollywood.īy a creepy coincidence, this was discovered to have been one of the addresses of Elizabeth Short, the unfortunate victim in the notorious Black Dahlia murder of 1947, when it was known as the Chancellor Apartments. With the promise of a screen test, the procurer takes the young ingenue to what turns out to be the brothel he manages.
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The magnificent architecture of the 1939 Spanish Revival-style station at 800 North Alameda Street, Downtown, has graced countless productions, including Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, Walter Hill's The Driver, The Way We Were, The Replacement Killers (which shares many of Blade Runner’s locations), Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle – and has now hosted the Oscar ceremony. In the deco splendour of Union Station we’re introduced to Cohen’s ultimate nemesis, LA cop Sgt John O’Mara ( Josh Brolin), who’s staking out a slimy pimp attempting to recruit a newly arrived innocent into his sleazy business. Soon we’re on to the real Los Angeles and one of the great unchanged glories of thew city’s heyday.
Gangster Squad film location: Sgt O'Mara follows the pimp: Union Station, North Alameda Street, Downtown Los Angeles
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