Los Angeles Plays Itself

James Griffith as Jesse Quinn in Dragnet (archive footage) Roy Jenson as Mulvihill in Chinatown (archive footage) Jerry Lewis as Jerome Littlefield in The Disorderly Orderly (archive footage) Carroll O'Connor as Lt. Christy French in Marlowe (archive footage) Ann Savage as Vera in Detour (archive footage) David Strathairn as Pierce Patchett in L.A. Confidential (archive footage) Hugh Beaumont as George Copeland in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage) Howard Duff as Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage) Bruce Glover as Duffy in Chinatown (archive footage) Alan Ladd as Philip Raven in This Gun For Hire (archive footage) Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage) Larenz Tate as Frankie Lymon in Why Do Fools Fall In Love (archive footage) John Vernon as Mal Reese in Point Blank (archive footage) Natalie Wood as Judy in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage) Jim Bouton as Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye (archive footage) Darrell Zwerling as Hollis Mulwray in Chinatown (archive footage) Jim Backus as Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage) Henry Jaglom as Dean in Venice/Venice (archive footage) Jack Klugman as Sandman in Two-Minute Warning (archive footage) Al Leong as Uli in Die Hard (archive footage) Lloyd Nolan as Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage) William Talman as Dave Purvis in Armoured Car Robbery (archive footage) George Tobias as Al Doyle in Nobody Lives Forever (archive footage) James Whitmore as Lou Hopke in Shadow in The Sky (archive footage) Daria Halprin as Daria in Zabriskie Point (archive footage) Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage) Joe Mantell as Walsh in Chinatown (archive footage) Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (archive footage) Tony Roberts as Rob in Annie Hall (archive footage) Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd (archive footage) Mykelti Williamson as Det. Oliver Franklin in First Power (archive footage) Burt Young as Curly in Chinatown (archive footage) Jean Harlow as Gwen Allen in The Public Enemy (archive footage) Mitchell Ryan as The Priest in Two-Minute Warning (archive footage) Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet (archive footage) Lon Chaney Jr. as Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage) John Garfield as Nick Blake in Nobody Lives Forever (archive footage) David Janssen as Steve in Two-Minute Warning (archive footage) Sal Mineo as John 'Plato' Crawford in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage) Cliff Robertson as President in Escape From L.A. (archive footage) Diane Venora as Justine in Heat (archive footage) James Cagney as Tom Powers in The Public Enemy (archive footage) Deanna Durbin as Penny in Three Smart Girls (archive footage) Oliver Hardy as Ollie (archive footage) Tom Neal as Al Roberts in Detour (archive footage) Craig Wasson as Jake Scully in Body Double (archive footage) Richard Basehart as Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage) Ann Blyth as Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (archive footage) Grand L. Bush as FBI Agent Little Johnson in Die Hard (archive footage) Guy Madison as Cliff Harper in Till the End of Time (archive footage) Jürgen Prochnow as Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers (archive footage) Paolo Seganti as Johnny Stompanato in L.A. Confidential (archive footage) Barbara O. Jones as Dorothy in Bush Mama (archive footage) Robert Culp as Frank Boggs in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage) Marjoe Gortner as Joby in Earthquake (archive footage) Lana Turner as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (archive footage) Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday in Dragnet (archive footage) Jenny Wright as Diz in Out of Bounds (archive footage) Perry Lopez as Escobar in Chinatown (archive footage) Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved Ones (archive footage) Bill Cosby as Al Hickey in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage) Mark Frechette as Mark in Zabriskie Point (archive footage) Madeleine Stowe as Karen Carr in Unlawful Entry (archive footage) Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lebowski (archive footage) Peter Jason as Duty Sergeant in Escape From L.A. (archive footage) Gary Lockwood as George Matthews in Model Shop (archive footage) Lyle Lovett as Detective DeLongpre in The Player (archive footage) Matt McCoy as Brett Chase in L.A. Confidential (archive footage) Zachary Scott as Monte Beragon in Mildred Pierce (archive footage) Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (archive footage) Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of The Worlds (archive footage) Bob Hope as Adam J. Niles in Bachelor in Paradise (archive footage) Jonathan Winters as Wilbur Glenworthy in The Loved Ones (archive footage) Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in Escape From L.A. (archive footage) John Considine as Matthew Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage) Lauren Hutton as Georgia Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage) Stan Laurel as Stan (archive footage) Edmond O'Brien as Frank Bigelow in D.O.A (archive footage) Robert Morley as Sir Ambrose Abercrombie in The Loved Ones (archive footage) James Stacy as Joe Brodnek in Flareup (archive footage) Keenen Ivory Wayans as Det. Jim Campbell in The Glimmer Man (archive footage) Raquel Welch as Michele in Flareup (archive footage) Brenda Bakke as Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential (archive footage) William Bendix as Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

Thom Andersen Director, Writer, Producer Deborah Stratman Director of Photography