CREDITS FIGHT CLUB, 1999 dir: David Fincher Ed Norton Brad Pitt Helena Bonham-Carter Meatloaf Jared Leto

Fight Club location: Ed Norton’s ‘Pearson Towers’ condo: Promenade Towers, South Figueroa Street, downtown LA

When it’s blown to bits, he moves into he dismal squat of anarchic Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). There’s nothing to see: the house on ‘Paper Street’ (a Wilmington address) was nothing more than a temporary set constructed down in LA’s San Pedro harbour area, and the nearby ‘Lou’s Tavern’ – though a real bar – has since been demolished.

The film, coincidentally, shares a couple of locations with the 1953 War of the Worlds. First is the ‘St Francis of Assisi Religious Center’, where Norton’s support group evenings are disrupted by the chain-smoking Marla Singer (Helena Bonham-Carter), which is St Brendan’s Church, Third Street at Van Ness Avenue, south of Hollywood.

The restaurant of the ‘luxurious Pressman Hotel’, where Durden did something unspeakable to the cream of mushroom soup, is the Emerald Ballroom of the familiar Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue (see Beverly Hills Cop). Look out for a glimpse of Tyler Durden in the same location, among the hotel staff on the corporate video welcoming Norton to his hotel room. The hotel’s soup is fine, by the way.

Also downtown LA, but slightly less classy, Marla’s digs was the (now closed) Bristol Hotel, 423 West Eighth Street. During filming, cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth was hospitalised after being hit on the head by a beer-bottle flung down by a disgruntled resident. Trust me, you wouldnít have wanted to stay there.

During the ‘homework assignment’, to start a fight with a complete stranger, youíll probably recognise the forecourt with the geometric metal sculptures as 444 South Flower Street at Fifth Street, downtown: the ‘bank’ robbed by Robert De Niro’s crew in Heat.

Fight Club location: starting a fight: South Flower Street, downtown LA

The computer store blown up by Durden’s Project Mayhem space monkeys is on the corner of the 500 block of Sixth Street at South Olive Street, southwest of Pershing Square, downtown.

The old Clifton’s Silver Spoon Cafeteria, 515 West Seventh Street, downtown LA, which had closed in 1998, became the restaurant in which a confused Norton, warns Marla to get out of town.

Fight Club location: The exterior of ‘Clifton’s’: West Eighth Street, downtown LA

The exterior, where he puts her on the bus, is faked at 325 West Eighth Street, not far from the Bristol. This is the downtown section of street down which Gene Barry seems constantly to be running in the 1953 War of the Worlds.