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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."+
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-In ''[[The Street with No Name]]'', Los Angeles played Center City. Again and again, it has played a city with no name.+
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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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