Sailor Kovac’s Epidermal Louvre

[From The Tattooed Stranger (dir. Edward Montagne, 1950). Click for a much larger view.]

The Internets appear to have not a single reference to Sailor Kovac’s Epidermal Louvre. Now there will be one.

The IMDb gives 4 Bowery as a filming location for The Tattooed Stranger. Alas, the tax photograph that goes with that address is a sideways view that reveals nothing of the window. But if you look closely at that photograph, you can see that the two bands on the column to the left of the eye match what we see in the movie.

Speaking of eyes, this page of tattoo history explains “BLACK EYES MADE NATURAL.”

Imagine my surprise when I realized that 4 Bowery is right around the corner from a building in a previous OCA tax-photograph post.