"The Killer That Stalked New York"

We're looking south on Broadway past the Bradbury Building toward the Central and Cozy theatres for the finale of "The Killer That Stalked New York" (Columbia, 1950). Evelyn Keyes is up on the Bradbury ledge. She was after her two-timing boyfriend but the real killer of the title is that (gasp!) she has brought smallpox in from Cuba. Joseph F. Biroc did the cinematography. The film was directed by Earl McEvoy. 

 Another street level shot with the Bradbury Building at the left and the Central Theatre on the right.

Looking down on the Central (below) and the Cozy (on the left). The Cozy was running a triple bill with "Red Desert" (1949), "The Big House" (1930) and "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934). 

Another look down onto the two theatres. It appears that they used some Main St. locations for some of the closeups on the ledge -- the vertical sign for the Hotel Cecil (640 S. Main) appears in several shots.

A last look south toward the theatres. See the pages for the Central Theatre, 314 S. Broadway and the Cozy Theatre, 320 S. Broadway, on the Los Angeles Theatres site for more about these two venues.

 

The five shots below are from ten minutes of footage shot for the film that was located by Scott Collette on Internet Archive as PET 1095 R 4. On his Forgotten Los Angeles Facebook page he shared a clip from it featuring the Central and the Cozy. 

 

The crowd massing to watch the spectacle above. That's a bit of the Central Theatre marquee on the left.  

 

 Looking down onto the Central's marquee. 

 

A view south with the Bradbury Building on the left. Here we can actually see what was on the Central's marquee. They were advertising "The File on Thelma Jordan" with Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey and Paul Kelly. The second feature was "Always Leave Them Laughing" with Milton Berle and Virginia Mayo. 

 

Another scene with different titles on the Central's marquee. Here it's "Tower of London" (1939) with Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff along with "The Man Who Lived Again" (1936) starring Karloff with Anna Lee. 

 

 

A shot a moment later, again with the two Karloff titles at the Central.  

 

 

Near the end of the ten minute reel on Internet Archive we get this shot taken from the Bradbury Building of the marquee on the Million Dollar Theatre, 3rd and Broadway. Check out the clip showing the neon in action on Scott Collette's Forgotten Los Angeles Facebook page. He comments about this one, which doesn't appear in the finished film: 

"Filmed during what appears to have been a 10th anniversary run of 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' with 'Two Yanks in Trinidad' playing as the second film on the double bill. This was a tough one to date. I finally found listings for the two films together in mid-December 1949."

Thanks, Scott! See the pages about the Million Dollar Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site.  

On IMDb: "The Killer That Stalked New York" 

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