I like when movie directors (or screen writers) include accurate details – non fictional – that only very few people (Noirisher type) will notice. Details that are not necessary to the plot. It is kinda blink towards connoisseurs.
Here are 2 related to Los Angeles :
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Chinatown » by Roman Polanski and Robert Towne (a favorite motion picture on the thread) is set in 1937. Certainly in summer as there is a drought. At one moment, J. J. Gittes (Nicholson) passes a beach bar and we hear by the opened door a juke box playing «
I Can't Get Started » by Bunny Berigan. Well, it's not just any jazz recording of the 1930's to set the right mood... it is the hit of the summer of 1937 (August precisely) !
Bunny Berigan (a somewhat noirish look... William Faulkner/Dashiell Hammett in-between )
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Now another favorite : «
Criss Cross » by Robert Siodmak and Daniel Fuchs. Let's examine the scene between Yvonne De Carlo and Burt Lancaster in the drugstore :
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Originally Posted by Beaudry
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This fictional place (Beaudry explained why) is not any drugstore Downtown : it is the «
drugstore at the corner ». It is located on Temple Street, somewhere on the north sidewalk between Broadway and Hill Street. More or less in front of Burt Lancaster's house, up the north portal at the Hill Street tunnel. I thought at first that the drugstore could as well be on the south sidewalk of 1st Street, somewhere between Los Angeles and San Pedro Streets, but we would see the State Building and the Hall of Records behind the City Hall. And the street would go up. On the rear projection, it goes down as Temple does to the East.