Why the Night Owl?
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Ed in MO — 11 years ago(September 16, 2014 01:50 PM)
Actually it was Nite Owl, not Night Owl.
I think, just like Bloody Christmas and the hookers cut to look like movie stars, James Elroy based the Nite Owl massacre on a true L.A. murder story from the early 1950's. I searched the 'net for it but couldn't find it. Perhaps someone here knows more?
Incidentally, just in case anyone wants to visit the Nite Owl while in Los Angeles, it is really the J&J Sandwich Shop, located at 119 East 6th Street, directly across from Coles Restaurant. According to its owner, Curtis Hanson and crew spent three weeks shooting there in the summer of 1996, only they used cameras and not guns.
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GreenGoblinsOckVenom86 — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 09:51 PM)
I think the only thing that doesn't make sense is that Captain Dudley Smith would steal purses and then kill Ed Exley's father for trying to stop him from doing that. I mean I'm sure he made plenty of money as a cop so why steal women's purses?
"You want me to roll 6,000 of these!? What? Should I quit my job!?"George Costanza, Seinfeld -
jnericsonx — 9 years ago(August 11, 2016 03:50 PM)
He didn't. "Rollo Tomasi" was the name Exley made up for his father's killer. The "one who got away with it". When Ed calls Dudley that, he's using the name as a reference, because at that moment, Dudley "was going to get away with it". Its a name used to refer to two different people entirely.