SEE THIS MOVIE IN ITS FULL LENGTH ON YOU TUBE VIA THE PROVIDED EMBEDDED LINK BELOW
PLUS SOME PHOTOS ATTACHED RELATING TO SCENES IN THE MOVIE BELOW THE FILM LINK
Hello ALL
This is an old and favorite N.Y. City on location 1946 era movie of mine - called THE DARK CORNER. It is about a private detective in NY City whose new office is located in a building on the 2nd floor of a building at the S.E. Corner of Grand Street and "The Bowery" Avenue. And his corner office many huge corner office windows face west and north directly to the tracks of the IRT 3rd Ave EL at the south end of the GRAND STREET Express Station. In the many office scenes in the film there are many views of 3rd Ave EL local and express trains of MUDC Type cars (like the one I modeled) passing by up and downtown, complete with their sounds, clearly seen outside the windows in the background. A number of scenes are filmed live on the corner of Grand Street and the Bowery around and under the EL station. And the office scenes were filed live in that on location building, in a rented office set up by the film company and outfitted for the shooting. And of course the frequent clanging of trolley car bells on the still operating Third Ave. Railway System trolleys running under the El (intil Early 1947)
Most of it is filmed on location in parts of N.Y. City Manhattan, and stars actress Lucille Ball in a very serious main role as Private Eye BRAD GALT's "girl friday". Excellent drama movie and story plot -- The link is to the whole entire length of the movie...about 1 1/2 hours approx. time duration to watch on site here.
The opening scenes with the credits are shot from the EL Station stairway bridge onm the north east corner, leading into the below the platforms Station Token Booth Mezzanine from along the uptown local track side of the 3rd Ave El's GRAND STREET Express Station on the "Bowery". To the nostalgia laden sounds of the famous 1940's music instrumental called "Manhattan Serenade" . GALT's building still stands on the south east corner today - tho the EL itself was removed by late 1955.
I first saw this movie on TV in the 1952-53 period (and the EL was still operating past my house back then) - and haven't seen it until recent years, and it was again just on ME-TV-2 the other night.
Anyway - for those older viewers from the NYC area back then - who may enjoy it - this is for you !
NOTE: I have inserted TWO current day scenes of the building where Detective BRAD GALT's office was located - and ONE current day scene looking across to where seen in movie opening scenes, the then actual Bank Building was diagonally across the Bowery-Grand St. intersection from his office. SO you will get a feel for the location of his office in relation to the real outside area of it.
I have ALSO added many additional photos from my collection showing what the area of the filming looked like around and under the EL in that period of 1940's-early 1950's
Regards - Joe F
ABOVE - North just above where the N/B original 1876-77 built Grand St. Station (the Local stop only) over the easterly sidewalk in 1900 before the EL was rebuilt to 3 tracks in center of avenue between 1915-16, and sidewalk EL structures were torn down. Note the 1860's old BANK at left is still seen in 1946 movie and photos and present day scenes.
ABOVE - 1954 view North on Bowery (3rd Ave) under 3rd Ave EL at Grand Street Intersection,
under south end of the Grand St. Express Station. Building at right very edge of photo is
the one where its 2nd floor windows were at the office that was used for the private detective
BRAD GALT's office, and the EL Station stairway at right across Grand St. was seen in the movie
from his office windows facing Grand Street. This is the way the immediate area looked in 1946 !
ABOVE - View north from the EL Station stairway, from the
under-tracks mezzanine station of the EL's Grand St. Express Station, to the north side
of Grand Street. The view is north up along Bowery (3rd Ave) from the very south end
of the station structure, in 1946 A same view as seen from the detective's north facing
Grand St. side office windows.
ABOVE - in the Movie (see 1946 PHOTO NEXT down with the Bus) this is a current 2013
same view looking south on Bowery (3rd Ave) to the S.W. Corner of Bowery and Grand Street
crossing left to right. The Bank building is still there if not a bit "modernized" on the upper
windows. The EL station stairway came down to the sidewalk at lower right side of this
picture until the EL was closed and demolished by the end of 1956.
ABOVE - this is the same scene but in 1946 - from the movie - looking south on the Bowery,
under the EL, to the S.W. corner of Grand street which the bus heading EAST is upon.
The corner bank on the south side of Grand Street is still there today, per upper photo.
Notice the original larger 2nd floor windows of the bank building !
ABOVE - this photo taken Aug. 1, 1955, to record the parade marking the start in a few
days of DEMOLITION of the entire Manhattan 3rd Avenue EL, is looking S.E. to the S.E.
corner of Bowery (3rd Ave) and Grand Street. The CORNER BUILDING is where on its
2nd floor corner offices, the movie sequences were filmed for the detective office
interiors in 1946. 10 years later, by Feb. 1956, the EL will be totally gone from Manhattan.
ABOVE - This 1940's view looking south under the Grand Street Express
Station of the 3rd Ave EL along the Bowery (3rd Ave) towards the Grand
Street south end of the 3 track, 2 island platform express station. Note the
2 stairways coming down into Grand St. The "Office" was in a building at left
background about where the distant auto is at left in the background. This
shows you exactly what the actors and film crew saw during the filming back in 1946
