Film Noir Friday-Saturday Matinee: Without Warning [1952]

Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open! Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is WITHOUT WARNING, starring Adam Williams, Meg Randall, and Edward Binns.

The movie is entertaining, but it is the Los Angeles locations that make it worth watching. Below are a few you should look for. Enjoy the movie!

IMDB says

Carl Martin is a morose and deranged Los Angeles gardener, who, in retribution for the infidelity of his unfaithful wife, sets about to kill as many blondes as he can. From the time the film opens, to the sound of a radio turned up full-blast over the still-warm corpse of a blonde, the audience knows the identity of the killer. The film depicts, with documentary realism (as it was shot on location in and around Los Angeles), how the police, using laboratory techniques against the few clues they have, track down Martin.

LOS ANGELES LOCATIONS:

Chavez Ravine

Carl’s hilltop home., overlooking the freeway and Los Angeles skyline.

Union Station – 800 N. Alameda Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

(Carl Martin catches a taxi to Union Station

New Follies Theater – 548 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

(Carl Martin in front of theatre, demolished)

Continental Club & Restaurant – 1508 N Vermont Ave, East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

(Carl Martin meets woman in parking lot, demolished)

Los Angeles River, California, USA

(police, dead woman)

Four Level Interchange – Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

(Foot pursuit of freeway interchange. Officially the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange, this is the four level Interchange of Arroyo Seco Parkway, Harbor Freeway, Santa Ana Freeway and Hollywood Freeway. Completed in 1949 and fully opened in 1953 at the northern edge of Downtown Los Angeles)

East 7th Street and Alameda Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

(Produce market scenes.)

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