It isn't listed on maps.google.com or MapQuest. It is listed here as one of the filming locations. I am wondering if that was the street their beautiful Craftsmen Style home was located.
Paula Jo
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Found it-maybe.
Google Earth lists Clay St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 as being at 34* 03' 06" N, 118* 14' 56" W.
This puts it right downtown near Bunker Hill between Olive St. and Hill St.
I have a map showing the historic core of LA, and it has an un-named street running from 2nd to 3rd Street between Olive and Hill Street. That may have been it. But it may have been demolished for development, all that is shown on Google Earth there now is a complex of large buildings.
This would have made it a location for some of the downtown filming. Angelina Street (listed as a location) may have been where that house was, it's a residential zone. But it's pretty run down now.
Maybe someone local can check it out.
I see. I think all that is left in that area is "Angel's Flight Railway". Everything else was razed to make way for gentrification, hence all the bright shiny high rises. Bunker Hill turned into a depressed area so you can't blame them. Nice they refurbished Angel's Flight, though. http://angelsflight.org/
sharegcassidy2 is correct about the former location of Clay St. It was really not much more than an alley, running from 2nd St. to 4th St. between Olive and Hill, and was erased from the landscape with the Bunker Hill redevelopment of the '50s-'60s.
It's the street crossing underneath Angel's Flight (in its original location) on which Van Heflin can be seen running in this frame grab from the film:
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Thank you. I remember that scene since TCM just replayed this wonderful movie. I can't seem to get enough of it.
shareThat recent TCM showing was the first time I've seen it. I don't know how I've managed to miss it all these years (I'll just say I'm a little shy of Social Security age and leave it at that), but it's one with which I've been intending to catch up for some time.
In addition to the locations around downtown L.A., I enjoyed seeing the beautiful Glendale train station in the climactic confrontation scene (having been a resident of that city for 20 years).
I loved the ambiguity established by the opposing "moralities" involved - reminding me of "Gone Baby Gone," one of the few films of recent years I've truly admired - and the way in which those conflicts invite viewers to confront their own values and senses of morality.
And of course, Mary Astor's work is dazzling, as it so often was. It's definitely going on my list of films to be revisited regularly.
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And great to see Angel's Flight actually working! Let's hope that can happen again one day.
shareYou'll be happy to know it has been for over 20 years. In early 1996, it was reopened half a block south of its original location at 3rd and Hill, and is now midway between 3rd and 4th.
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Yes, but unfortunately not operating.
https://angelsflight.org/
Thanks for the update Rheli. I'm clearly behind on my L.A. news since relocating nine years ago. I checked the "Press" link and got the sordid particulars. Depressing, but thanks again.
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Ah yes. I learned about this a couple years ago during a wonderful architectural walking tour of the area. Highly recommended.
shareCheck out "The Exiles" (1961) Good shots of Clay St.
share"The Exiles" is almost a time capsule of the old Bunker Hill area. "Kiss Me Deadly" and "The Benny Goodman Story" also had scenes filmed on Clay Street.
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"Angel's Flight" -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316601/reference -- was filmed near the funicular.
Complete 72 minute movie -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81HvMHetMJg
After watching this for the first time, the first thing that I wanted to do was look up the filming locations. All the downtown shots/scenes are the most unforgettable part of the movie to me (and yes, the couple's home was beautiful).
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