jackie brown, 1997
Director
Cast
- Pam Grier
- Samuel L Jackson
- Robert Forster
- Robert de Niro
- Bridget Fonda
- Michael Keaton
- Chris Tucker
- Sid Haig
visit the film locations
Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Visit: Sam's Hofbrau, 1751 East Olympic Boulevard at McGarry Street, downtown Los Angeles (tel: 213.623.3989), the only topless strip-club in downtown LA.
Trivia
For more of Quentin Tarantino's rather scuzzy Los Angeles, see Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown filming location: Jackie's local bar: Cockatoo Inn, West Imperial Highway, Hawthorne, Los Angeles
Apart from the occasional directorial flourish, you’d hardly recognise this character- and plot-driven Elmore Leonard adaptation, with its laidback middle-aged leads, as the work of Quentin Tarantino – the man who had previously made the pyrotechnic Pulp Fiction.
Most of the film's locations can be found in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, around Los Angeles International Airport, where Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is caught carrying money for gun dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L Jackson).
One location you can find in downtown Los Angeles is the strip joint at which Louis Gara (Robert de Niro) picks up Ordell after the money drop.
It's Sam's Hofbrau, 1751 East Olympic Boulevard at McGarry Street, stranded in the warehouse wasteland just west of Alameda Street, southeast of downtown. Quentin Tarantino revisits the club in Kill Bill Vol.2, using it asthe interior of the ‘My Oh My Club’, where Michael Madsen works as a bouncer.
Jackie Brown filming location: De Niro at the strip joint: Sam's Hofbrau, East Olympic Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles
Jackie's local bar ‘near the airport’, to which she takes Max Cherry (Robert Forster) after he collects her from county jail, is the Cockatoo Inn, 4334 West Imperial Highway at Hawthorne Boulevard, which is indeed not far from Los Angeles International.
Jackie Brown filming location: "Cherry Bail Bonds" office: East Carson Street, Carson, Los Angeles
The ‘Cherry Bail Bonds’ office of wearily decent bondsman Max Cherry is indeed a real bail bonds business. It's Carson Bail Bonds, 7 24 East Carson Street, Carson, south Los Angeles.
Jackie Brown filming location: the bag switch: Del Amo Fashion Center, Hawthorne, South Los Angeles
The vast shopping mall, further south in the South Bay area, is the Del Amo Fashion Center, Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance.
A few years later, one of the mall's deserted stores was transformed into 'Saguaro Square', the 'Arizona' department store in which Billy Bob Thornton worked as a very Bad Santa.
