Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!

by Jim Dawson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609495462
• ISBN13: 9781609495466
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"