For the coffee scene Dante Spinotti ran two cameras at once, so close they barely missed each other. Here each one sees a different Los Angeles. Camera A stays on McCauley and his crew; camera B stays on Hanna. Roll both and you get the only places where the two men share a frame.
HannaMcCauley
Both cameras cut. Roll camera A, camera B, or both.
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Spinotti shot the coffee scene with two cameras at once, barely missing each other; the pairing of each camera with a set of places is this page’s own.
Neil McCauley was real: a thief who had served time on Alcatraz, tracked in 1964 by a Chicago detective, Chuck Adamson. The two men met for coffee once, as the film shows.
On 25 March 1964 McCauley and his crew followed an armoured car to a National Tea grocery store. Police had blocked the exits, and McCauley was shot dead on the lawn of a house nearby. He was 50.
Adamson went on to produce television and film. Mann wrote the script in 1979; it was first made as a TV film, L.A. Takedown, shot in nineteen days and shown in 1989.
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Neil McCauley was real: a thief who had served time on Alcatraz, tracked in 1964 by a Chicago detective, Chuck Adamson. The two men met for coffee once, as the film shows. On 25 March 1964 McCauley and his crew followed an armoured car to a National Tea grocery store. Police had blocked the exits, and McCauley was shot dead on the lawn of a house nearby. He was 50. Adamson went on to produce television and film. Mann wrote the script in 1979; it was first made as a TV film, L.A. Takedown, shot in nineteen days and shown in 1989.
Heat posters on the wall inside Kate Mantilini in December 2012, eighteen months before it closed. vxla · CC BY 2.0
9101 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills
Kate Mantilini
Hanna and McCauley meet for coffee at Kate Mantilini. It closed in 2014 after a rent rise.
Spinotti shot the scene with two cameras at once, placed so close they barely missed each other.
Morphosis, the practice of Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi, turned a former Wells Fargo bank branch into the restaurant and wrapped it in a scaffold-like cage.
Inside, a sculptural orrery rose through a fourteen-foot skylight to a sundial on the roof.
The restaurant has gone. The building stands on Wilshire Boulevard at Doheny Drive; look at it from the pavement.
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444 South Flower Street, then the Citigroup Center, in 2006; a Flower Street sign in the corner. Joe Collver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bunker Hill · weekends only
Fifth Street.
444 South Flower Street
The tower played the outside of the bank the crew robs; the production could film there only at weekends.
The bank interior was shot elsewhere, at the Far East Bank.
Albert C. Martin & Associates designed it. It was finished in 1981, rises 48 floors to 627 feet, and was the Citigroup Center before it became FourFortyFour South Flower.
An office tower on Bunker Hill. The plaza and the Fifth Street frontage are open to walk past.
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Union Bank Plaza on South Figueroa Street in 2022. Another Believer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fifth and Figueroa
The shootout runs along West 5th Street from the bank tower to Figueroa Street, where the getaway car crashes.
Hanna shoots Cheritto on top of the parking garage at Union Bank Plaza, 445 South Figueroa Street.
Union Bank Plaza, finished in 1968, was the first skyscraper of the Bunker Hill redevelopment. In 2020 it became the first skyscraper in Los Angeles named a Historic-Cultural Monument.
Public streets; walk West 5th Street from Flower to Figueroa. The Central Library and the Millennium Biltmore are a few minutes away.
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Val Kilmer at Cannes in 2005, ten years after Heat; no free photograph of him from 1995 has been found. Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Val Kilmer played Chris Shiherlis, one of McCauley’s crew. Shiherlis is loosely based on Miklos Polesti, who got away from the 1964 shootout in Chicago and was caught days later.
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Kilmer played Chris Shiherlis, a character loosely based on Miklos Polesti.
Spring Street looking north in 2008, the street of the garage where Neil meets Nate. Los Angeles · CC BY-SA 3.0
339 South Spring Street, Los Angeles
The Spring Street garage
McCauley and Nate talk business on level nine of the garage at 339 South Spring Street.
A multi-storey car park in the Historic Core. The scene is on level nine; look up from Spring Street.
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The Arts District at 4th Street in 2014, a few blocks from Factory Place. Johnnydeezwax · CC BY-SA 3.0
1282 Factory Place, Arts District, Los Angeles
Factory Place
Hanna’s men watch the crew break into a precious-metals repository on Factory Place, between Downtown and the Los Angeles River.
The building has been torn down and the site is now a parking lot.
The building has gone; the site is a car park on a public street in the Arts District.
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The Los Angeles Convention Center in 2020; the armoured-car robbery was shot on Venice Boulevard beside it. Américo Toledano · CC BY-SA 4.0
Venice Boulevard by the Convention Center, Los Angeles
Venice Boulevard
The armoured-car robbery, hockey masks and all, was shot on Venice Boulevard west of Downtown.
The stretch is between 725 Venice Boulevard and the Convention Center garage; the getaway ambulance heads east.
A public boulevard. The stretch runs between 725 Venice Boulevard and the Convention Center garage.
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Downtown Los Angeles
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McCauley’s Los Angeles is the edge of everything: a railway platform by the freeway, a coffee shop in the Valley, a house on a hill east of the river.
The first shotThe platform at Redondo Beach station in November 2023. OrdinaryScarlett · CC0
Marine Avenue, Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach station
The film opens here: McCauley gets off a train at Redondo Beach station.
The station opened on 12 August 1995, the summer Heat was shot, on what was then the Green Line.
Since November 2024 it has been the southern end of the K Line.
An elevated Metro station on Marine Avenue, open to anyone with a fare. It is now the southern end of the K Line.
Where we read itOff the clockThe Bob’s Big Boy neon sign in Burbank at night, 2015. Alison Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
4211 West Riverside Drive, Burbank
Bob’s Big Boy, Burbank
Breedan, out on parole, starts work at the grill here, and McCauley recruits him for the bank job.
Wayne McAllister designed it in 1949. It is the oldest Bob’s Big Boy still operating, and its neon sign is about 35 feet tall.
The owner planned to demolish it in 1992; the Conservancy’s campaign made it a California Point of Historical Interest that year.
A working coffee shop. The car show is on Friday evenings, and carhops serve on Saturday and Sunday nights.
Where we read itA house on the hillHomes on the hillside streets of City Terrace, East Los Angeles, in 2013. Mapmonsters · CC0
City Terrace, East Los Angeles
Trejo’s house
Trejo’s house, where McCauley finds him beaten, is a private home on Dodds Circle in City Terrace, south of the San Bernardino Freeway.
A private home. It is named here and kept off the map.
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Los Angeles International Airport
The runway.
The last chase leaves a hotel car park on Century Boulevard and ends in the open, at the head of an LAX landing strip, with jets coming in low overhead. Bring them in one at a time.
The runway is dark. Bring the first one in.
01The view west from the fourteenth floor of the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. westernworld · CC BY 3.0
Val Kilmer at Cannes in 2005, ten years after Heat; no free photograph of him from 1995 has been found. Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0Val KilmerChris Shiherlis · 2005
Michael Mann wrote and directed it, and Dante Spinotti shot it. Around Pacino, De Niro and Kilmer are Tom Sizemore as Michael Cheritto, Jon Voight as Nate, Amy Brenneman as Eady, Diane Venora as Justine Hanna, Ashley Judd as Charlene Shiherlis, Natalie Portman as Lauren and Danny Trejo as Trejo. Elliot Goldenthal wrote the score.
107Days of shooting, summer 1995
85Locations, fewer than ten of them filmed before
$60mThe budget
15 Dec 1995US release
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Cast, director, composer, 107 days of shooting in the summer of 1995, 85 locations with fewer than ten seen on film before, the $60 million budget and the US release on 15 December 1995.
11 places you can visit, all in and around Los Angeles. Trejo’s house in City Terrace is a private home: named here, not on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An office tower on Bunker Hill. The plaza and the Fifth Street frontage are open to walk past.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Public streets; walk West 5th Street from Flower to Figueroa. The Central Library and the Millennium Biltmore are a few minutes away.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A multi-storey car park in the Historic Core. The scene is on level nine; look up from Spring Street.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The building has gone; the site is a car park on a public street in the Arts District.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public boulevard. The stretch runs between 725 Venice Boulevard and the Convention Center garage.
1444 South Flower Street, then the Citigroup Center, in 2006; a Flower Street sign in the corner. Joe Collver · CC BY-SA 3.0
444 South Flower Street, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles
444 South Flower Street
The tower played the outside of the bank the crew robs; the production could film there only at weekends.
An office tower on Bunker Hill. The plaza and the Fifth Street frontage are open to walk past.
Where we read it
2Union Bank Plaza on South Figueroa Street in 2022. Another Believer · CC BY-SA 4.0
West 5th Street at South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles
Fifth and Figueroa
The shootout runs along West 5th Street from the bank tower to Figueroa Street, where the getaway car crashes.
Public streets; walk West 5th Street from Flower to Figueroa. The Central Library and the Millennium Biltmore are a few minutes away.
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3Spring Street looking north in 2008, the street of the garage where Neil meets Nate. Los Angeles · CC BY-SA 3.0
339 South Spring Street, Los Angeles
The Spring Street garage
McCauley and Nate talk business on level nine of the garage at 339 South Spring Street.
A multi-storey car park in the Historic Core. The scene is on level nine; look up from Spring Street.
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4The Arts District at 4th Street in 2014, a few blocks from Factory Place. Johnnydeezwax · CC BY-SA 3.0
1282 Factory Place, Arts District, Los Angeles
Factory Place
Hanna’s men watch the crew break into a precious-metals repository on Factory Place, between Downtown and the Los Angeles River.
The building has gone; the site is a car park on a public street in the Arts District.
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5The Los Angeles Convention Center in 2020; the armoured-car robbery was shot on Venice Boulevard beside it. Américo Toledano · CC BY-SA 4.0
Venice Boulevard by the Convention Center, Los Angeles
Venice Boulevard
The armoured-car robbery, hockey masks and all, was shot on Venice Boulevard west of Downtown.
A public boulevard. The stretch runs between 725 Venice Boulevard and the Convention Center garage.
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The hotel whose balcony the detectives watch from, on Ocean Avenue.
Shore Hotel
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Santa Monica · Coastal Escape from $236
The hotel whose balcony the detectives watch from, at 1515 Ocean Avenue, next door to Ivy at the Shore and across from Palisades Park. Its Coastal Escape offer starts at $236 a night.
Walking tours of Downtown and film-location tours across Los Angeles.
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Downtown Los Angeles
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Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Camera report
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
12 of 12 places · 12 of 12 Moments
Kate Mantilini
9101 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills
Coffee
Hanna and McCauley sit down together for coffee: the first scene Pacino and De Niro ever played together.
444 South Flower Street
444 South Flower Street, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles
The bank
The crew rob the bank; the tower plays its outside, and the shootout starts at its door.
Fifth and Figueroa
West 5th Street at South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles
West Fifth Street
The gunfight moves down West 5th Street to Figueroa, where the getaway car crashes.
The Spring Street garage
339 South Spring Street, Los Angeles
Level nine
McCauley and Nate talk business on level nine of a downtown garage.
Factory Place
1282 Factory Place, Arts District, Los Angeles
The metals repository
Hanna’s men watch the crew break into a precious-metals repository.
Venice Boulevard
Venice Boulevard by the Convention Center, Los Angeles
The armoured car
The crew hit an armoured car on Venice Boulevard in hockey masks and leave in an ambulance.
Ivy at the Shore
1535 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica
The balcony
Hanna’s detectives watch the crew leave a restaurant on Ocean Avenue.
LAX, the runway head
Los Angeles International Airport, 1 World Way
The runway
The last chase ends in the open at the head of an LAX landing strip, with jets coming in overhead.
Hilton Los Angeles Airport
5711 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles
Eady waits
McCauley leaves Eady waiting in the car on a side street by the hotel.
Redondo Beach station
Marine Avenue, Redondo Beach
Off the train
McCauley steps off a train at Redondo Beach station.
Bob’s Big Boy, Burbank
4211 West Riverside Drive, Burbank
The grill
Breedan takes a job at the grill, and McCauley offers him a way out.
Trejo’s house
City Terrace, East Los Angeles
Trejo
McCauley finds Trejo beaten in his house in City Terrace.
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