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Sep 29, 2017 · ‘L.A. Confidential’: The ultimate filming locations map. From Los Feliz to Long Beach, the 1997 classic exposes rot beneath the glamour of Los Angeles
L.A. Confidential location: Vincennes finds the body of the murdered actor: Hollywood Center Motel, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles. He’s too late, finding Reynolds dead in a pool of blood inside room 203 of the Hollywood Center Motel, 6720 Sunset Boulevard.
Sep 20, 2019 · ‘L.A. Confidential’: The ultimate filming locations map From Los Feliz to Long Beach, the 1997 classic exposes rot beneath the glamour of Los Angeles “I remember the first time I got off the plane in LA.
- Crossroads of The World
- Boardner’s
- Lovell Health House
- Frolic Room
- Los Angeles City Hall
The Crossroads of the World on Sunset Boulevardis one of the Californian city’s most iconic landmarks, and there was no way it wouldn’t be included in the film. Designed by Robert Vincent Derrah and built in 1936, it is an open-air mall that features the legendary central building resembling an ocean liner surrounded by a “village” of cottage-like ...
A classic Hollywood speakeasy, Boardner’s was opened back in 1927 and has managed to survive and adapt to the many shifting epochs of the city of angels. Prohibition, The Great Depression, and even the cocaine-fuelled cultural boom of the 1980s have all come and gone, whilst this nightclub has held its own and remains one of the go-to haunts in Hol...
Perhaps the most exciting construction on the list, the Lovell Health House has been one of Los Angeles’ most iconic buildings for nearly 100 years. A hillside residence built in an international style of modernism with flecks of cubism in the interior, it was designed and built by Richard Neutra between 1927 and 1929. Located in the Los Feliz neig...
Another vital part of the history of L.A. nightlife is the Frolic Room, one of the most authentic clubs still standing from the era of L.A. Confidential. Not only is it featured in the 1997 film, but it is also featured in Brian De Palma’s 2006 adaptation of the James Ellroy novel The Black Dahlia, reflecting just how perfect it is to convey the es...
Arguably the most iconic building in Los Angeles and California, Los Angeles City Hall is a marvel of art deco architecture. Its majestic white colour conveys the hope that the earliest denizens of the city felt when everything was starting to come together. Completed in 1928, this giant structure comes complete with an observation deck offering gr...
- The Victory Motel Site. EXT. THE VICTORY MOTEL – DAWN Set in the no-man’s land of the Baldwin Hills oil field. A broken neon sign features an oversized V, but nobody’s triumphed here in years.
- Lynn Bracken’s House. EXT. 1736 ORANGE DRIVE, HOLLYWOOD (LYNN BRACKEN’S) – DAY A discreet Spanish house at the end of a street adjacent to a golf course.
- The Formosa Café. EXT. THE FORMOSA (SANTA MONICA BLVD.) – DAY A Packard pulls up out front. Bud gets out, heads inside. Another car pulls up across the street.
- Frolic Room. EXT. FROLIC ROOM (HOLLYWOOD BLVD.) – NIGHT A hole-in-the-wall. Next door, at the Pantages, The Bad and the Beautiful is playing. “Curtis always had suggestions of bars, especially, to go and check out,” says Panzarella.
Filming locations for Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential (1997), around Los Angeles, CA.
L.A. Confidential: Directed by Curtis Hanson. With Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell. As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
