Crime Wave (1954 film)

Crime Wave also known as The City is Dark is a 1954 film noir, directed by Andr De Toth. It was adapted from a short story which originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post Criminal Mark by John and Ward Hawkins.

Later, the remaining gang members show up at Laceys apartment. Fearing for his wifes Phyllis Kirk safety, he decides to let the men stay. Subsequently, Penny forces Lacey to rob a bank with them, but Lacey alerts the police by planting a note in his medicine cabinet who staff the entire bank with police officers and ambush the robbers. In the end, most of the gang is killed, but Lacey and his wife are safe.Much of the film was shot on location in Los Angeles and in nearby Burbank and Glendale. At least one 1952 location, Sawyers Pet Hospital at the corner of San Fernando Road and Alma Street in Glendale, is still standing and still a pet hospital, albeit with a different name. Several locations seen onscreen, like the Bank of America on the southwest corner of Brand Boulevard and Broadway in Glendale where the films big robbery attempt takes place, as well as the distinctive dental building across Brand Boulevard, have been torn down and replaced. The final chase scene from the bank in Glendale to Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles, though edited, follows the actual route, including Brand Boulevard and the Glendale Boulevard fork on the Hyperion Viaduct, until Steve Lacey reaches the house possibly on Maple Street, just east of Los Angeles Street in the Chinatown district where the crazed Johnny Haslett is holding Laceys wife. The gas station in the films opening scene was on Wall Street just south of East 3rd Street, near Boyd Street, but has since been demolished. Other specific downtown Los Angeles locations include Los Angeles Union Station and the L.A. City Hall Building including interiors of the Homicide Bureau. The final scene, where Lt. Sims sends Steve and Ellen home, was shot on the 200 block of North Main Street, with Sterling Hayden leaning against the side of the City Hall Building. ........

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