Union Station (Los Angeles) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The facility served as a backdrop for the 1950 film Union Station, which starred William Holden and Nancy Olson. It has been used in many vintage motion pictures, many of the film noir variety. Movies that have featured Union Station as a filming location include:

  • Armored Car Robbery
  • Behave Yourself!
  • Blade Runner
  • Blondie Plays Cupid
  • Can't Hardly Wait
  • Collateral
  • Criss Cross
  • Cry Danger
  • The Company She Keeps
  • Drag Me to Hell
  • The Driver
  • Gable and Lombard
  • Highway 301
  • The Hustler
  • The Island
  • In the Mood
  • The Italian Job
  • The Narrow Margin
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Private Eye (1987 TV movie starring Josh Brolin)
  • Raise Your Voice
  • The Rebel Set
  • Show Them No Mercy
  • Silver Streak
  • Southside 1-1000
  • Speed
  • Star Trek: First Contact
  • Them!
  • Through the Fire (Chaka Khan music video)
  • Watch on the Rhine
  • The Way We Were
  • The Undercover Man
  • Under the Rainbow
  • You're Never Too Young
  • The Dark Knight Rises 2012 - The Scarecrow trial courtroom.

Television shows incorporating the station as a backdrop include:

  • 24
  • Alias
  • Castle (As a stand-in for Grand Central Terminal)
  • Chuck
  • The Closer
  • Criminal Minds (As a stand-in for Washington Union Station)
  • NCIS: Los Angeles
  • Quantum Leap

The station is also featured in the music video to Lifehouse's You and Me, Train's Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me), and the music video for HIM's Wings of a Butterfly. It has also been featured in several video games, including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as Unity Station, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and L.A. Noire as it appeared in 1947. In addition, the cover art for Bonnie Raitt's 1973 album Takin' My Time was shot inside of Union Station.

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