CREDITS LETHAL WEAPON, 1987 dir: Richard Donner Mel Gibson Danny Glover Gary Busey Mitch Ryan Tom Atkins

“You wanna jump ... ? You really
want to ... ? Fine. Let's do it.”

First in the hugely successful series of actioners pairing suicidally on-the-edge Riggs (Mel Gibson) with staid, middle-aged Murtaugh (Danny Glover).

The movie was shot all over LA ‚ on the southwest peninsula of Palos Verdes, the beachside community of Santa Monica, Studio City in the San Fernando Valley and Inglewood in South Central – as well as at El Mirage, the dry lake bed about 20 miles west of Victorville in the Mojave Desert.

The circular apartment block from which a drugged-out woman plummets to her death in the opening scene, is the International Tower, 700 Ocean Boulevard East, a block of condominiums in Long Beach, beneath which the coveted Mustang Eleanor is parked in both the 1974 and the 2000 versions of car-snatch movie Gone In Sixty Seconds.

Lethal Weapon: The opening druggy plunge: International Tower, Ocean Boulevard, LongBeach

The rooftop from which Riggs survives a leap with the unwilling suicide, is the Emser Building, 8431 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.

Lethal Weapon: The villains' hideout: Ritz Theater, Hollywood Boulevard

The villainsí nightclub, where Riggs is tortured, is the – now closed – Ritz Theater, 6654 Hollywood Boulevard (where you'll also find the excellent Skooby's Hot Dogs). The shoot-out is on Hollywood Boulevard outside the Vogue Cinema.

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