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Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!

ISBN: 9781609495466 | 1609495462

Format: Paperback
Publisher: History Pr
Pub. Date: 7/1/2012

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Summary Table of Contents

When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life "mean streets" that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer's exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes, run by the city's power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place. Book jacket.

Acknowledgements	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
Reel Life on the Streets	p. 11
Bunker Hill, Los Angeles	p. 22
Hard-Boiled Memories	p. 29
Bunker Hill Goes Hollywood	p. 44
Last Double Bill and Testament	p. 70
There Once Was a City Here	p. 86
High Crimes and Misdirections	p. 105
A Selective List of Films Shot on Bunker ... MOREHill	p. 116
Bibliography	p. 155
About the Author	p. 159
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