Game set in 1947 Los Angeles, features a close recreation of the area in what it would have looked like. Film In the 1940s and 1950s, Bunker Hill was a popular film setting, especially in the film noir genre, because of its Victorian homes, its rambling hillside apartments and flophouses, its Angels Flight funicular, and its mean (or at least mean-looking) streets. It was used extensively in such crime films as Cry Danger (1951), Kiss Me Deadly (1956), Criss Cross (1949), Joseph Losey's M (1951), and Angel's Flight (1965). Director Curtis Hanson re-created Bunker Hill in another hilly neighborhood altogether in his Oscar Award–winning L.A. Confidential (1997). Kent Mackenzie made a film in 1956 called Bunker Hill about the displacement of the residents who had to make way for construction. Another film by Mackenzie that was set in the area —his neo-realist and semi-documentary feature The Exiles (1961) — depicts the lives of a tribe of urban Indians on Bunker Hill in the late 1950s. Books Bunker Hill is the setting for much of Robin Robertson's 2018 verse narrative The Long Take which won the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize. The book includes a map of the old Bunker Hill neighbourhood. Robertson discussed his fascination with the district on BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme in March 2019. Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982) is the last novel written by John Fante before his death. On April 8, 2010, the day of the 101st anniversary of the writer's birth, John Fante Square was inaugurated at the intersection of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue. Services Emergency services The Los Angeles Police Department's Central Community Police Station serves Downtown Los Angeles, including Bunker Hill. The Los Angeles Fire Department's Central Bureau serves Downtown Los Angeles, including Bunker Hill. The LAFD operates Fire Station 3 (Civic Center/Bunker Hill) in the area. Education The area is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Notable people Richard Crenna, actor John Fante, American novelist Leo Politi, Italian American artist and author Jack Webb, actor, producer, creator of Dragnet and Adam-12 Otto J. Zahn, Los Angeles City Council member in the 1920s and pigeon racer See also Fort Moore Hill Central Business District, Los Angeles (1880-1899) References External links Image of Victorian houses on Bunker Hill with the steel frame of the 42-story Union Bank building behind them, Los Angeles, California, 1966. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429).