MY GUN IS QUICK - photo #2

In My Gun Is Quick (1957), Mike Hammer (Robert Bray) parks on Olive near the Astoria Hotel and hears a commotion on the utility stairway that runs down to Clay Street behind the Hillcrest Hotel and Sunshine Apartments. He hurries down to find that the man he is searching for has been thrown to his death from a window of the Astoria. This stairway was used in The Impatient Maiden (1932), Once a Thief (1950), Sudden Fear (1952), Chicago Calling (1952), Kiss Me Deadly (1955, in which Ralph Meeker's Mike Hammer literally walked the same steps as Bray's Hammer), The Indestructible Man (1956) and Angel's Flight (1965). In the right photo, the Sunshine Apartments' rear stairway is on the left.

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