Unanswered Questions about Angel (1984)

Many of these questions can't be answered without help from people who were there when the movie was made, so contact from any cast or crew that might be reading this would be welcomed. My thanks go to Robert O’Neil and Donna Wilkes for taking the time to answer questions and confirm details about the known locations. It's understandable that not everything can be remembered twenty-five years later, so there are still unanswered questions. Does anyone know the answers? I'd love to hear from anyone who has information about the making of Angel.

General Questions

The writers had characters gripe about the decay of the Hollywood Blvd area; so it had already gone downhill by 1983, but how much worse did it get? During my 2006 visit I noticed a lot of locked gates and window gratings that weren't seen in Angel twenty three years earlier; perhaps it did get a lot worse. Did this sort of urban decay happen slowly or were there events that pushed things this way? Did the earthquake of 1994 have any impact on such things?
Angel doesn't have many exploitative scenes, which I believe was a good thing for this movie. I expect it would have been an entirely different movie had it been filmed in the 70's instead of the 80's. Was keeping it toned down a deliberate decision?
In real life the apartment building was torn down in or before 1988, but when exactly? In one scene in Avenging Angel Angel stares wistfully at an empty lot. It's not the correct location but I have the feeling that the scene was meant to imply that the apartment building was gone; perhaps in 1984 reality the building was still standing, so they couldn't film such a scene there?
When did Boardner's move its sign from the building's southernmost arch to the next arch? The sign is seen edge-on in Angel during some of the scenes in the alley but is no longer visible from that angle in real life because of the move.
What's the name of the movie that the killer watches in the Cave Theatre? Update: This has been answered!

Location Questions

Most of the filming locations are known. Here are the more important unknown locations.

			Where were the exteriours of the police station shot?
			Kit's place was in a loft somewhere in Los Angeles. Does anyone know where?
	The view out of a window in the killer's apartment. Is it real or a set? If real, where is it?

Music Questions

	Something Sweet was recorded by a local Los Angeles band called The Allies. This band is presumably unrelated to the Seattle band of the same name that had recorded Emma Peel a year earlier. Was Something Sweet written specifically for Angel? The lyrics don't suggest it; if not, is there a story behind how this song ended up in the movie?
	In a few scenes Donna Wilkes wears two buttons on her school outfit. The top one looks like it reads The Equalizers, which could be an early 80's band. Does anyone know anything about it?



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