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Some great shots of old Los Angeles
posted by PapshmirSTAFFMOD on March 7, 2017 at 12:47 AM
This movie is a great opportunity to see some of the old Los Angeles downtown, in particular the Court Hill area that was flattened in the 1950s. More about it on the Silent Locations blog: Criss Cross and the Hill Street Tunnel and LA’s Early Hills, Tunnels Preserved in Noir as well as in this SkyscraperPage post and on this webpage.
Reply by Steve
on August 27, 2017 at 4:37 PM
thanks for those links. I just love this movie, and I'm fascinated with movie locations in LA.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on August 27, 2017 at 4:42 PM
SPOILER BELOW.....
Burt Lancaster is good in this one -- as well as equally doomed as he is in The Killers (1946).
Reply by Steve
on August 27, 2017 at 4:44 PM
The Killers for many reasons is the Citizen Kane of noir. But I'm afraid people don't regard Criss Cross that way. I think it's fantastic. One of my top film noir.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on August 27, 2017 at 4:46 PM
Really? Maybe I should watch Killers again -- I didn't think a whole lot of it when I saw it, years ago.
Reply by Steve
on August 27, 2017 at 4:50 PM
not just because it's great, but also the way the story is structured similar to the epic Kane.
Reply by tmdb53400018
on August 27, 2017 at 5:16 PM
Oh yea, I know they're both told in non-linear fashion....