Los Angeles is a sprawling Southern California city and the center of the nation’s film and television industry. Near its iconic Hollywood sign, studios such as Paramount Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers offer behind-the-scenes tours. On Hollywood Boulevard, TCL Chinese Theatre displays celebrities’ hand- and footprints, the Walk of Fame honors thousands of luminaries and vendors sell maps to stars’ homes.

Direction

Fire Station 23 - 225 E. 5th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( exterior - Sgt. Spellacy drives past the firehouse as he investigates a call girl who works at a brothel on 5th Street )

Direction

1000 block of Colton St, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Womans body is found in vacant lot, specifically between Glendale Blvd and Douglas street. Echo Park Pool now stands at this location. )

True Confessions (1981)

Runtime: 108 minutes

Rating: 6.3

Release year: 1981

IMDB: tt0083232

Plot summary

A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Cast

Robert De Niro

Robert Duvall

Charles Durning

Kenneth McMillan

Directors

Ulu Grosbard

True Confessions Filming Locations

True Confessions Filming Locations

1: E Ave G & 198th St E, Lancaster, California, USA ( Two Pines Chapel - church at beginning and end of film )

2: Olvera Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Location )

3: Union Station - 800 N. Alameda Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Tom meets parents, casket transfer )

4: Palomar Hotel, 5473 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, California, USA ( Back Drop Chase Scene )

5: King Edward Hotel - 121 E. 5th St, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Tom's car overheats near the hotel in the opening scene of the flashback to the 1940s )

6: 218 East 12th Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Des' church - St. Joseph's, heavily damaged by fire September 1983 )

7: Father Serra Park - 540 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( HIspanic celebration with Union Station in background )

8: Alverno High School - 200 North Michillinda Avenue, Sierra Madre, California, USA

9: Arden Villa - 1145 Arden Road, Pasadena, California, USA

10: Echo Park Lake, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Location )

11: Los Angeles, California, USA ( Location )

12: Fire Station 23 - 225 E. 5th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( exterior - Sgt. Spellacy drives past the firehouse as he investigates a call girl who works at a brothel on 5th Street )

13: 1000 block of Colton St, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Womans body is found in vacant lot, specifically between Glendale Blvd and Douglas street. Echo Park Pool now stands at this location. )

True Confessions (1981)