A film noir where Charles McGraw plays a straight arrow insurance investigator who falls for femme fatale, Joan Dixon, and ends up killing her gangster boyfriend.
Wait a minute! That plot sounds awful familiar. Lets just cut to the chase (and a great chase it is). McGraw and Dixon are on the lam to Mexico.
Down Riverside Drive:
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures
Through the Gas Works:
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures
Down Spring Street past the Taylor Yards (great shot from the pedestrian bridge)
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures
South on Mateo near 6th Street:
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures
Hey! Looks the same today.
Google Street View
But the cops are waiting at Imperial Street. Actually McGraw and Dixon are in big trouble, because the police have implemented
their Plan "A", where they block off EVERY escape route out of Los Angeles. (I'm not kidding)
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures
So, its down the secret route to the L.A. River:
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures
Does this really get you down to the river?
Google Street View
Heading north (to Mexico?) through the river:
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures
But, with Plan "A" in effect, they never had a chance. Charles McGraw is killed and Joan Dixon walks off to...who knows where?
Roadblock, RKO Radio Pictures