Los Angeles Plays Itself

• EK

  Encke King

  Narrator (voice)

• 

  Ben Alexander

  Officer Frank Smith in Dragnet (archive footage)

• 

  Jim Backus

  Frank Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)

• 

  Brenda Bakke

  Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential (archive footage)

• 

  Barbara O. Jones

  Dorothy in Bush Mama (archive footage)

• 

  Gene Barry

  Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of The Worlds (archive footage)

• 

  Richard Basehart

  Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)

• 

  Hugh Beaumont

  George Copeland in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

• 

  William Bendix

  Buzz Wanchek in The Blue Dahlia (archive footage)

• 

  Ann Blyth

  Veda Pierce in Mildred Pierce (archive footage)

• 

  Jim Bouton

  Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye (archive footage)

• 

  Grand L. Bush

  FBI Agent Little Johnson in Die Hard (archive footage)

• 

  James Cagney

  Tom Powers in The Public Enemy (archive footage)

• 

  Lon Chaney Jr.

  Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage)

• 

  John Considine

  Matthew Crawford in Timestalkers (archive footage)

• 

  Bill Cosby

  Al Hickey in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

• 

  Robert Culp

  Frank Boggs in Hickey & Boggs (archive footage)

• 

  Howard Duff

  Dave Pomeroy in Panic in the City (archive footage)

• Crew
• 

  Thom Andersen

  Director

• 

  Thom Andersen

  Writer

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