Colors - High Top Chase (1988) - Filming Locations
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Colors - High Top Chase (1988) - Filming Locations
| Film Title |
Colors (1988) |
| Starring |
Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Glenn Plummer |
| Featured Location |
Venice Beach (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Specific Streets |
Windward Avenue, Pacific Avenue, Venice Beach Speedway |
| Era Captured |
Late 1980s streetscapes & historic early 1900s architecture |
| Current Status |
Highly evolved; many historic structures removed, selective buildings remaining |
Production Note: This high-energy chase scene serves as a gritty historical document of the Venice Beach neighborhood as it looked in 1988, capturing several original turn-of-the-century buildings before modern redevelopment.
The Plot
Los Angeles police officers Robert Duvall and Sean Penn vs street gangs in Los Angeles
Historic Venice Beach As Filming Location - Then And Now
Going back as far as the early 1900s, Venice Beach has been a favorite filming location for the movies.
Charlie Chaplin filmed his comedy short
By The Sea here in 1915 and
Buster Keaton filmed here a few years later for his movie
The High Sign. In 1933,
Our Gang / The Little Rascals filmed the entire second half of their comedy
Fish Hooky here as well.
In this scene from
Colors, we see Robert Duvall chasing a local hood through the streets of Venice Beach, while his partner Sean Penn takes an alternate route down the aptly named Venice Beach Speedway to try and head him off. This Quick Preview of the complete filming locations then and now video shows the beginning of the chase scene, starting off at Windward Avenue at the beach and continuing over to Pacific Avenue.
While many of the historic Venice Beach buildings are now gone, the movie does capture several of the original early 1900s buildings while they were still standing, and the current views as seen in the video show a few of those original structures remaining intact today. This scene from
Colors documents this part of the Venice Beach neighborhood as it was in the late 1980s.
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