Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609495466)

When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life "mean streets" that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer's exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes, run by the city's power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place.

Author: Jim Dawson
ISBN-10: 1609495462
ISBN-13: 9781609495466
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2012
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.50d