Mark Wahlberg plays an English professor with a few problems in "The Gambler" (Paramount, 2014). His lecture hall was an altered version of the larger theatre at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St.
The film, directed by Rupert Wyatt, also stars Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Anthony Kelley, George Kennedy, Alvin Ing and Michael Kenneth Williams. The cinematography was by Greig Fraser.
Another shot with part of the film's set on the left. See four pre-production and filming shots of this venue at the bottom of the page.
Brie Larson coming in later to sit in the front row. At the top of the film we'd seen her as a waitress at a high-end gambling club in Pacific Palisades where she'd been a witness Mark's other life. In an earlier class he'd told her she was the only one in the group with any real writing talent and if she was going to come back she should be sitting in the front row where she belonged.
Several guys that Mark owes money to are soon after him. Here one team in a limo on the search are coming out of the alley toward 8th St. with the
Tower Theatre on the right.
They finally catch up to him during this round and stuff him into one of the limos in front of the former Warner Theatre, 7th & Hill. He had been in the jewelry district trying to pawn a watch. See the
Warner Theatre pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site for history and photos. It's been used as a jewelry mart since the 1970s.
By the end of the film he's lost several fortunes and still owes twice as much as he has. There's one last big bet to be made in a hidden subterranean gambling den. Here we're starting to make our labyrinthine way to it by pulling up in St. Vincent Court and looking at the south side of the Los Angeles Theatre. He'll go in a door there.
See the pages about the
Los Angeles Theatre for hundreds of photos and a listing of the many movies that have used it for filming.
After he goes through a door at the Los Angeles, Mark goes down a long high-ceilinged hallway and through a garment manufacturing sweatshop before emerging on the fire escape along the south side of the Palace Theatre, 630 S. Broadway.
Offstage left at the Palace as Chinese performers wait to perform.
He goes for a walk with his escort across the nearly empty stage while someone is singing.
Offstage right at the Palace.
Down the stage right stairs to the basement.
One of the basement areas under the auditorium.
Mark in a shot with a stack of spare seat backs.
Looking out from a mechanical equipment area into the Palace's basement lounge.
See the pages about the
Palace Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for a history of this Orpheum circuit vaudeville house and many photos of all areas of the building.
After Mark wins his bet and walks away free he exits the premises and ends up again in St. Vincent Court, south of the Los Angeles Theatre. On the left across 7th St. it's the State Theatre building. On the right, here with a GNC store in it, is the building that was the Palace Theatre from 1916 until 1922. Where's he headed? Running until he gets to Brie's place in the Los Altos Apartments on Wilshire.
Shots of the Los Angeles Theatre Center from the "making of" featurette that's on the film's DVD:
On IMDb: "The Gambler"
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