The Street with No Name
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| '''''The Street with No Name''''' is a 1948 [[film noir]] directed by [[William Keighley]]. A follow-up to ''[[The House on 92nd Street]]'' (1945), it tells the story of an undercover FBI agent, Gene Cordell ([[Mark Stevens (actor)|Mark Stevens]]), who infiltrates a deadly crime gang. Cordell's superior, FBI Inspector George A. Briggs ([[Lloyd Nolan]]), also appears in ''The House on 92nd Street''. The film, shot in a [[semidocumentary]] style, takes place in the Skid Row section of fictional (actually Los Angeles) "Center City." | '''''The Street with No Name''''' is a 1948 [[film noir]] directed by [[William Keighley]]. A follow-up to ''[[The House on 92nd Street]]'' (1945), it tells the story of an undercover FBI agent, Gene Cordell ([[Mark Stevens (actor)|Mark Stevens]]), who infiltrates a deadly crime gang. Cordell's superior, FBI Inspector George A. Briggs ([[Lloyd Nolan]]), also appears in ''The House on 92nd Street''. The film, shot in a [[semidocumentary]] style, takes place in the Skid Row section of fictional (actually Los Angeles) "Center City." | ||
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| + | Its landmarks are obscure enough that they could play many roles. The most venerable of these landmarks is the [[Bradbury Building]] at Third and Broadway, dating from 1893. It was discovered by architectural historian [[Esther McCoy]] in 1953. She claimed architect [[George Herbert Wyman]] had been inspired by [[Edward Bellamy]]’s utopian vision of a socialist architecture in the year 2000: "a vast hall full of light, received not alone from the windows on all sides but from the dome." | ||
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The Street with No Name is a 1948 film noir directed by William Keighley. A follow-up to The House on 92nd Street (1945), it tells the story of an undercover FBI agent, Gene Cordell (Mark Stevens), who infiltrates a deadly crime gang. Cordell's superior, FBI Inspector George A. Briggs (Lloyd Nolan), also appears in The House on 92nd Street. The film, shot in a semidocumentary style, takes place in the Skid Row section of fictional (actually Los Angeles) "Center City."
In The Street with No Name, Los Angeles played Center City. Again and again, it has played a city with no name.
Its landmarks are obscure enough that they could play many roles. The most venerable of these landmarks is the Bradbury Building at Third and Broadway, dating from 1893. It was discovered by architectural historian Esther McCoy in 1953. She claimed architect George Herbert Wyman had been inspired by Edward Bellamy’s utopian vision of a socialist architecture in the year 2000: "a vast hall full of light, received not alone from the windows on all sides but from the dome."
