'Candy"

Although we're supposedly in something resembling New York, 80 minutes into "Candy" (Cinerama Releasing, 1968) there's a shot of the red lights of a police car approaching the Palace Theatre, 630 S. Broadway.  The theatre was running "Counterpoint," a 1967 release with Charlton Heston and Maximilian Schell, along with "Grand Slam," starring Janet Leigh and Klaus Kinski. 

Buck Henry wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. Ewa Aulin stars as the title character. Also featured are Richard Burton, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, James Coburn, John Huston, Walter Matthau, Ringo Starr, Elsa Martinelli and Anita Pallenberg. Christian Marquand directed. The cinematography was by Giuseppe Rotunno. 

 

A bit of the Palace marquee is then seen as the the car comes back north on Broadway. Candy is in the front seat with policemen played by Joey Forman and Fabian Dean. 

 

See the pages about the Palace Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site. It opened in 1911 as the Orpheum.  

 

 

As they drive up Broadway, the two guys get increasingly excited by Candy's presence. Here we're driving by the yellow marquee of the Cameo Theatre, 528 S. Broadway.   

Head to the Cameo Theatre pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site for a history of the 1910 vintage film house. It opened as Clune's Broadway.  

 

As they go by the Broadway Theatre, 428 S. Broadway, things get erratic as the boys in blue get distracted by the prospect of frisking their suspect. They lose control of the car and crash as we cut to a street shot looking more like New York. The scene ends in an interior studio set as the car comes through the front of a building.  

See the page on the Los Angeles Theatres site about the poor Broadway Theatre. It opened in 1925 as a conversion from retail space. It's now been converted back.

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