CREDITS AMERICAN HISTORY X, 1998 dir: Tony Kaye Edward Norton Edward Furlong Stacy Keach Avery Brooks Beverly d'Angelo Fairuza Balk Elliott Gould

Controversy when Ed Norton allegedly re-edited the movie to increase his role, and director Tony Kaye all but disowned the film. But it's undeniably Norton's fiercely intelligent performance that makes the movie.

Derek Vinyard (Norton) finds his White Supremacist past hard to shake off and, when his younger brother Daniel (Edward Furlong) heads down the same racist path, tragedy follows.

The neighbourhood of the Vinyard family is Venice Beach, LAís Bohemian beachfront community increasingly troubled by gang-related problems.

Daniel Vinyardís ëVenice Beach Highí is Venice High School, 13000 Venice Boulevard, Venice (which was seen previously in happier circumstances as 'Rydell High' in Grease).

Tragic climax at the high school: Venice High

Oddly, for inhabitants of Venice Beach, Derek and Daniel stop off, on the way to Venice High, at Johnie's Coffee Shop, 6101 Wilshire Boulevard at Fairfax Avenue, opposite the golden cylinder of the old May and Co department store in midtown LA. Johnie's closed down in 2000 and is now, unbelievably, yet one more LA landmark in need of conservation.

This streamlined fifties coffee shop, which started life as Romeo’s Times Square, is where Anthony Edwards receives news of the impending apocalypse in the underrated thriller Miracle Mile, and features in both The Big Lebowski and Reservoir Dogs.