"10 to Midnight"

Buying tickets for "Butch Cassidy" at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica in J. Lee Thompson's "10 to Midnight" (Cannon Group, 1983). Charles Bronson stars as a cop on the trail of a psychopath who is targeting young women. The film also stars Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens and Gene Davis. Adam Greenberg did the cinematography. 

 

Thanks to Tommy Bernard for spotting the theatre in the film and getting the screenshots. See the page on the Los Angeles Theatres site for more about the Aero Theatre. That guy over on the right, played by Gene Davis, had been harassing the girls. 

 

Much later in the film, after Bronson has been taken off the case, he's still convinced that the creep played  by Gene Davis is the guy they're after. He follows him to Hollywood Blvd. and we get this shot looking east toward the Pantages. Thanks to Brian Michael McCray for spotting this scene in the film.

The "A" that we see lit on the vertical is from added neon saying "LENA." the show "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" had opened for a seven week run Beginning November 17, 1982. See the pages about the Pantages Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres website for hundreds of photos and a history of this 1930 vintage showplace.  

 

 A look at the sleazy action in front of the Cave Adult Theatre, 6315 Hollywood Blvd. 

 

A look west to the Vine Theatre at 6321 Hollywood Blvd, just beyond the Cave. 

 

Another view of the Cave action.  

 

 Davis pulls up in his Volkswagen looking for a hooker. 

 

 

 

Bronson, on the right, getting closer in his car.  

 

 

Davis drives away with one of the girls.  

 

 

Bronson pulls up to find out where that girl usually takes her tricks. But it's all a decoy. Davis is really after Bronson's daughter.

See the page on the Los Angeles Theatres site about the Vine Theatre for a history of this S. Charles Lee design dating from 1940. There's also a page about the Cave Theatre.

On IMDb: "10 to Midnight"