Film Noir / Real Noir Downtown Los Angeles — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

Film Noir / Real Noir Downtown Los Angeles — An Esotouric™ Walking Tour

Angels Flight & Crisscross Locations

• Angels Flight Website
• Angels Flight in the Movies
• Crisscross (1949) Temple & Hill Location
• Crisscross (1949) Temple & Hill Location, And Then Some More

Films To Watch

• M (1951)
• Of Scrap & Steel (1949)
• Crisscross (1949)
• Cry Danger (1951)
• Angels Flight Rendez-vous (1970), Jacques Drouin
• Indestructible Man (1956)

More Film Resources

• M (1951) Production File
• The Long Take, or A Way to Lose More Slowly (novel in narrative poetry form by Robin Robertson)
• Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction’s Mean Streets and Film Noir’s Ground Zero, by Jim Dawson

Joan Renner & True Crime

• Of Mobsters and Movie Stars: The Bloody ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood, by Joan Renner
• Deranged LA Crimes, Joan’s Blog

Nathan Marsak’s Books

• Marsak’s Guide to Bunker Hill
• Bunker Noir! (Nathan’s other book)
• Bunker Noir: True Crime in Angeleno Bunker Hill (Amazon)
• Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir

Nathan Marsak & Bunker Hill Online

• Institute for Advanced Bunker Hill Studies
• RIP Los Angeles: Blogging Los Angeles One Demolition Permit At A Time
• Nathan’s Substack Newsletter
• On Bunker Hill: A Lost Neighborhood Found
• Nathan’s Posts On Bunker Hill

Film Noir & The Émigré Transition

• Paul & Lupita Kohner Papers, Herrick Library
• The Paul Kohner Agency
• Paul Kohner Biography: The Magician of Sunset Boulevard
• Paul Kohner & German film émigrés
• Dark Past: Film Noir by German Émigrés, film festival at BAMPFA
• Billy Wilder in Hollywood, a biography by Maurice Zolotow

James M. Cain (Double Indemnity Author)

• James M. Cain, The Art of Fiction No. 69, The Paris Review
• The Voice of James M. Cain: A Biography