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The
climax: High Tower, Hollywood
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Kenneth
Branagh's enjoyably flashy, and quite ludicrous,
reincarnation thriller is set in LA,
with amnesiac Grace (Emma
Thompson) apparently haunted by memories of a past
life in which she was brutally murdered.
The forties monochrome flashbacks see private dick Mike
Church (Branagh)
as an orchestra conductor apparently wooing Grace in
a previous life. The conductorís grand mansion is 380
South San Rafael Avenue in Pasadena.
You canít see this oft-used mansion from the road, but
you may recognise its entrance as the spot where Steve
Martin grabs clandestine shots of Eddie
Murphy leaving his estate in Hollywood satire Bowfinger.
The concert hall, where Branagh
conducts, is the beautifully preserved 1926 Orpheum
Theatre, 842 South Broadway, downtown LA,
still functioning as a movie house, and seen in plenty
of other films; while the glamorous ëSydísí restauarant
was Perino's,
the legendary LA restaurant, which stood at 4101
Wilshire Boulevard at Norton. The restaurant
closed in 1986, since when it's been used as a film
location. It's now converted into luxury apartments
and, though the restaurant has gone, the striking pink
canopied frontage is to be preserved.
Joan Crawford (Faye
Dunaway) dines at Perino's
in overheated biopic Mommie
Dearest, and it's where
a down-on-his-luck Julian Kaye (Richard
Gere) vainly appeals for help from his wealthy clients
in American Gigolo.
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'Syd's'
restaurant: Perino's, Wilshire Boulevard
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In the present day scenes, the elaborate Gothicky bridge,
where Church gets beaten up by faker Campbell Scott,
is Shakespeare Bridge,
on Franklin Avenue
between Myra Avenue and St George Street, in the Los
Feliz district.
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Mike
Church gets beaten up: Shekespeare Bridge, Los
Feliz
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The jail is good old Lincoln
Heights Jail, 421 North Avenue 19, Lincoln Heights.
No longer used as a jail, the building is a frequent
film location ‚ seen in films as diverse as the 1954
A Star Is Born and
A Nightmare On Elm Street.
The climax of the movie was written for the location.
Graceís striking, Italianate apartment complex is High
Tower, High Tower Drive, off Camrose Drive
west of Highland Avenue, North Hollywood, where the
tower housesan outdoor elevator.
High Tower was also
the home of Elliott
Gould's down-at-heel Philip Marlowe in Robert
Altman's 1973 take on The
Long Goodbye.
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