Marquee Survivals: A Multimodal Historiography of Cinema's Recycled Spaces

Broadway Arcade in Kindergarten Cop

In this clip from 1990's Kindergarten Cop, Cullen Crisp's nefarious mother gets rid of the key witness in the case against her son by planting lethal narcotics with a drug dealer. The exchange takes place in the Broadway Arcade, where it's implied only "low-lives" (a role named in the film's credits) and people of color can be found. The witness visits the location looking for drugs, and falls into the scheming mother's plot.

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  1. Arcade in Kindergarten Cop