"The Crow: City of Angels"

We pay a nice visit to the Linda Lea Theatre, 251 S. Main St., in the film "The Crow: City of Angels" (Dimension Films, 1996) starring Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks and Iggy Pop. Tim Pope directed. The theatre had been closed for a few years at that point and was being used for storage.

Vincent Perez is back from the dead via the power of his totem animal, the crow. He's looking for the guys that killed him and his son years earlier. The Linda Lea is an early stop on the hunt as he's heard one of the bad guys is in there.

The theatre is dressed up as a venue with coin-in-slot booths to watch naked girls. We only get views of the lobby. When we go into where the auditorium should be it's a set of corridors and booths.

Perez finds the guy he's looking for and a fight in the lobby ensues.

A view toward the front doors.

A look into the lobby as a colleague comes to check on his buddy only to find him dead.

Only a couple walls and the roof structure of the Linda Lea were retained when the site was rebuilt as the Downtown Independent. See the Los Angeles Theatres page about the Linda Lea/Downtown Independent for more details about the theatres.

Part of the hunt for the killers includes a couple quick shots in the alley north of the Los Angeles Theatre. Here we're coming out of a side exit of the theatre. Note the signage. See the pages about the Los Angeles Theatre for a history of the 1931 vintage movie palace.

The lair of the bad guy of the film is in the lit tower of the United Artists Theatre. Here it's seen in a view from a model of the city the film uses for many shots, especially those showing the crow flying.

A closer view of the tower, again using a model. 

A shot in a set intended to resemble the tower's interior.

Another view of the tower set. 

A Day of the Dead revel in front of the real United Artists building.  

Looking to the top. Perez is going to climb the exterior to get to the man responsible for his death, played by Richard Brooks.

The climb begins.

Getting acquainted with some of the Gothic statuary.

Getting near the top.

Perez falls. He's lost his power when his totem animal is trapped and killed. But he's not dead -- only mortal rather than suffused with extraordinary powers. We next get a fight scene on the ground, mostly with shots done on a backlot set that includes another theatre exterior. 

See the pages about the United Artists Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for many photos of all areas of the building. It's now known as the Theatre at Ace Hotel. See the roof page for views of the tower areas replicated in the sets used for the film.

On IMDb: "The Crow: City of Angels"