And this movie would be?
[Update: Please congratulate Amy, Richard Heft, Michael Ryerson, Sarah, Greg Clancey, LC, Lee Rivas and Benito for identifying our mystery film. ]
Here’s another clue… I’m guessing this location is…
Our movie also has this mystery (not) location…..
And look who I found! Please congratulate William Stansel, Herb Nicholas and David Andrews for identifying our mystery film.
And here’s another interesting location….
Please congratulate Dewey Webb and Lee Rivas for identifying our mystery chanteuse.
One reason our mystery movie is a well-known example of 1950s film noir is because it uses actual locations, like Angels Flight. I have been searching various archives for historic photos showing the Los Angeles County coroner’s office in the Hall of Justice, but I didn’t see anything that looked like this.
Then I watched a bit more of the film. Look at the camera position. This must be a set.
Because in another (totally not) mystery movie, the morgue looks like this.
Please congratulate Lee Rivas and Barbara Klein for identifying our mystery chanteuse, and Bob Levinson, Dewey Webb, Mary Mallory, Don Danard, Arye Michael Bender and Greg Clancey for identifying our friendly morgue attendant.
“Kiss Me Deadly”
The Picture of Dorian Gray?
HUGO.
KISS ME, DEADLY?
Kiss Me Deadly. I ‘remember’.
Kiss Me Deadly?
The Heart of Me
Ralph Meeker is holding that book in “Kiss Me Deadly”.
The Lost Moment
A frame from Walter Brennan’s second TV series…
@AMB Ha, ha….”The Tycoon” or “The Guns of Will Sonnett?”
Kiss Me Deadly 1955
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly
Although I’ve never seen it this is obviously a frame from Dead Poets Society.
THE SETUP with Robert Ryan.
Requiem for a Heavyweight
The “Main Street Gym”….on 3rd and Main Streets.
@Lee: That’s my guess. It’s clear from other shots in the movie that it’s on the second floor, up a narrow staircase.
Larry: I’m watching the film now and yep…that’s the main street gym; I visited it enough in the 60′s.
Okay, that’s Angel’s Flight. Still haven’t figured out the movie.
@Mary: It sure is!
The Exiles or Criss Cross
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
kiss me deadly
Kiss Me Deadly, right?
Mady Comfort/Kiss Me Deadly
The film ANGEL’S FLIGHT?
The woman with the microphone is “jazz” singer Mady Comfort.
That’s Percy Helton playing the morgue guy…
Coals to Newcastle at this point but the wonderful Percy Helton. . .
Percy Helton in HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE.
The movie is “Kiss Me Deadly,” the singer is Madi Comfort, and the man in the morgue is Percy Helton.
Well, I don’t know where the mystery location is, but the little guy looking in on the corpse is Percy Helton. That should be worth at least one point, right?
The picture after the “chanteuse” looks like a baker at the Helms bakery in Culver City.
And the coroner is Percy Helton. With his funny, quirky self and high voice, he played in many a Noir. And lots of other genres too.
Percy Helton had a great voice.
the nightclub singer is madi comfort and the morgue attendant is percy helton
There’s a lot to love in this picture but I always thought the real star was the Donegan “Castle” at 325 S Bunker Hill Ave.
@Nathan: I could spent another week on the locations in this film.
Kitty White is the chantoozie – Percy Helton is the “Doc” and that’s Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer – all in “Kiss Me Deadly” (I hope)
Is it “Kiss Me Deadly”?
And of course the film is the forever intriguing, “Kiss Me Deadly”. Saw it as a kid at the Terminal Theater in Chicago. Also immediately recognized the unintended irony of that all. It was my closest neighborhood theater in 1955.
Finally. “Kiss Me Deadly.”
Well, finally. KISS ME DEADLY 1955 with Percy Helton and Ralph Meeker.
Whew! That took a long time!
This has solved a musical mystery for me. After following all of the comments about the “Mystery Chanteuse” and finding out that the singer was Mady Comfort. I followed up and researched her. Turns out she was a well known singer during the 30′s and 40′s and one source revealed that she was a girl friend of Duke Ellington, and supposedly the inspiration for “The Duke”s” classic “Satin Doll.” I would never have known that but for your “Mystery.” To a jazz buff this alone is worth the price of admission to your blog.
@Mike: There’s also a connection to Dr. George “Evil Genius” Hodel. He hired her as a photography model early in her career.
Watching “Baby Jane” on TCM and noticed the beach scene was shot on the same stretch of sand as the “Kiss Me Deadly” finale. You can see the house in the background. I guess Bob likes his locations.