"Angel"

We see a lot of Hollywood Blvd. in Robert Vincent O'Neill's "Angel" (New World, 1984). Fifteen year old Molly is an A student at a private school by day, a hooker by night. Well, she's been on her own since age twelve after her father died and her mother abandoned her. "Sorry," mom said in her farewell note. That's Molly in the distance, off to school, in this view west toward the Mann Chinese Twin.

Things turn really ugly when a serial killer starts preying on the teenage hookers on the street. The film stars Donna Wilkes as Molly/Angel, Cliff Gorman as a policeman on the hunt, Dick Shawn as a drag queen friend, Rory Calhoun as a six-shooter toting cowboy, Susan Tyrell as a friend at Molly's apartment house and John Diehl as the killer.

A telephoto look east toward the Vogue Theatre at 6675 Hollywood Blvd., the Warner Hollywood at 6433 Hollywood Blvd. (at the time called the Hollywood Pacific), the Pantages at 6233 Hollywood Blvd., and the X Theatre, 5959 Hollywood Blvd.

See the pages about the Vogue Theatre, the Warner Hollywood, the Pantages, and the X Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for many photos of the buildings.

A peek across the street to the Vogue with Dick Shawn in the frame. The theatre was a 1935 design by S. Charles Lee. It's now a museum / auction display room for the firm Screenbid.  

Outside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel looking east toward Grauman's Chinese and the Chinese Twin. See the Grauman's Chinese and the Mann Chinese Twin pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site for more about the theatres.

Another look east, this time with part of the vertical visible for the Paramount Theatre, 6838 Hollywood Blvd. In the distance across Highland Ave. we see the signage of the Hollywood Theatre, 6764 Hollywood Blvd.

The Paramount is now back to its original name, the El Capitan. The Hollywood Theatre is now a Guinness Book of Records museum. The pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site have all the details.

Yet another shot looking east, this time with the signage showing for the Taft Building at Hollywood and Vine as well as the Music Box Theatre, here called the Pix. It's down near the Pantages. We never seem to look west, you notice.

The police getting the word out about the killer. Here we're at the Cave Theatre, just west of Vine St. It's a building that once was Sardi's Restaurant. Lately it's been a strip club called Deja Vu.

The manager of the Cave Theatre telling a customer to get his feet off the seats. He recognizes the guy as the killer the police are looking for, finds the cops and the guy gets taken to a lineup. Molly recognizes him, a sloppy officer gets his gun taken, and the killer shoots his way out.  If you really need to know more about the Cave Theatre, it's covered on the Los Angeles Theatres site.

Molly on the warpath with a gun, chasing the guy east on Hollywood Blvd. Here they cause a lot of commotion in front of the Warner Hollywood / Hollywood Pacific while a show is getting out and the marquee is getting changed.

The killer behind the buildings just to the east of the Warner. Molly is over behind the chain link fence, still firing. Firing more bullets than a six-shooter will hold. See the pages about the Warner Hollywood on the Los Angeles Theatres site for hundreds of photos of the building.

Our big shootout at the end happens in the alley just north of the Las Palmas Theatre, 1642 N. Las Palmas Ave. We're just a half block south of Hollywood Blvd. The show playing there was "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You."

End of the line for the serial killer in the alley alongside the theatre. See the page about the Las Palmas on the Los Angeles Theatres site for a history of the building.

Toomas Losin has eight pages about "Angel" on a website that includes location shots, details about the filming and lots more.

On IMDb: "Angel"