"Day of Reckoning"

The RKO Hillstreet Theatre at 8th & Hill is in the background behind actor Conway Tearle as we look up Hill St. in "Day of Reckoning" (MGM, 1933). We're on top of the Western Costume Building, 939 S. Broadway. In this prison drama Richard Dix is sent to a high-rise prison facility in L.A. after a bit of embezzlement.

Thanks to John Bengtson for the screenshot. It's included in his Silent Locations post "Laurel & Hardy's Liberty Rooftop" where he discusses shots from the same location used for the Laurel & Hardy film "Liberty" (1929) as well as other locations used for that film.

See the page about the RKO Hillstreet on the Los Angeles Theatres site for many photos of this 1922 vintage house designed by G. Albert Lansburgh for the Orpheum Circuit. It was demolished in 1965.

Another shot from the same scene where we're looking west  with the Trinity Auditorium, 855 S. Grand Ave., in the background. Over on the right it's the Commercial Exchange Building at 8th and Broadway. Again thanks to John Bengtson for the screenshot. See the page about the Trinity Auditorium for more about the 1914 vintage building. 

In IMDb: "Day of Reckoning"