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A.W.O.L.
location: The Argyle, now the Sunset Tower
Hotel, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood
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A.W.O.L.
filming locations
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CREDITS
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Lyon
Gaultier (Jean-Claude
Van Damme)
goes AWOL from the French Foreign legion in North Africa
to avenge the death of his brother in LA.
The glorious deco skyscraper, in which Gaultier winds
up in LA–
courtesy of villainous Cynthia (Deborah
Rennard) – and where we get the obligatory
butt shot (damn, she burned all his clothes!), is the
the Sunset
Tower Hotel, 8358 Sunset Boulevard at Kings Road,
West Hollywood.
Previously the St James Club, and before that, Sunset
Towers, the block was pretty dilapidated for many years,
but now it’s been beautifully restored. Catch it
at sunset when, like in the movie, the upper storeys
are illuminated. This striking art deco tower has been
a frequent film location. You can see it in the 1944
Philip Marlowe thriller Farewell
My Lovely (aka Murder
My Sweet), with crooner Dick Powell as Raymond
Chandler's private eye; Robert
Altman's The Player;
Barry Sonnenfeld's
Get Shorty;
the 2003 remake of The
Italian Job; and
Kathryn Bigelow's
futuristic Strange
Days.
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