"Cobra"

Sylvester Stallone and his partner Reni Santoni are wandering Main St. looking for leads in murder cases in "Cobra" (Cannon, 1986). We're at some adult theatre but don't see enough to identify which one.  Thanks to Sean Ault for noting the film's Main St. action. 

George P. Cosmatos directed this film about an L.A. policeman who has his own violent ways of dealing with criminal types. No actual cobras are involved -- that's his nickname. Also featured are Brigitte Neilsen, Andrew Robinson, Lee Garlington, Brian Thompson and John Herzfeld. The cinematography was by Ric Waite. 

 

Another shot on Main St. They also hit a few bars, a tattoo parlor and we see Sylvester coming out of the Howell Hotel, 549 S. Main. They also shot in some interesting industrial areas and we see quite a bit of Venice. 

 

There's a lot of action in Long Beach. Here as Sylvester and Brigitte turn off Ocean Blvd. in an attempt to lose some killers we get a shot of the closed Imperial and West Coast Theatres, 319 and 333 E. Ocean Blvd.  

 

As the chase in Long Beach continues we get a fuzzy view of the Jergins Trust Building beyond the newspaper rack. It housed the State Theatre, 104 E. Ocean Blvd.

See the pages about the Imperial Theatre, the West Coast and the State Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for information about these three now-vanished Long Beach film palaces.

On IMDb: "Cobra"