Angel is a 1984 film directed by Robert Vincent O’Neill, and written by O’Neill with Joseph Michael Cala, and starring Donna Wilkes, Dick Shawn, Susan Tyrell, Cliff Gorman, John Diehl and Rory Calhoun. The film became an 1980′s cult classic[citation needed], and was popular enough to spawn three sequels, each with a different starring actress. Sequels were Avenging Angel (1985), starring Betsy Russell, Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988), starring Mitzi Kapture, and Angel 4: Undercover (1993), starring Darlene Vogel. All were commercial failures at the box office. Lead actress Donna Wilkes was actually twenty-four years old, when she played the role of fifteen-year-old Molly Stuart in this film[citation needed]. She prepared for the role by talking to real-life street prostitutes on Hollywood Boulevard, and spent time with the Los Angeles Police Department, and in various halfway houses for underage children living on the streets of Los Angeles. Composer Craig Safan wrote the score to this film in less than a week. The film premiered at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. A fact sheet inside the theatre, prior to its closure in 1994, confirmed this. The theatre also features in the climax of the film, where a gun-toting Angel opens fire on the killer, terrifying patrons outside. The motel in the film is the El Royale Motel at 11117 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City. It has scarcely changed since this film was shot in 1983. In fact, most of the film was shot …
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