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City Streets is a 1931 American Pre-Code film noir directed by Rouben Mamoulian from a story by Dashiell Hammett and starring Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas.
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| Directed by | Rouben Mamoulian |
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| Story by | Dashiell Hammett |
| Produced by | E. Lloyd Sheldon |
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| Cinematography | Lee Garmes |
| Edited by | William Shea |
Production company | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
This Pre-Code crime film is about a racketeer's daughter who is in love with a shooting gallery showman. Despite her prodding, the showman known as The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money to support her in the lifestyle she's accustomed to. Her father implicates her in a murder and she's sent to prison, after which her father convinces The Kid to join the gang to free his daughter.
Plot
Nan Cooley (Sylvia Sidney), the daughter of racketeer Pop Cooley (Guy Kibbee), is in love with The Kid (Gary Cooper), a shooting gallery showman. Cooley tries to urge him to join the gang, in order to earn enough money to support her in the lifestyle she is accustomed to, but The Kid refuses. Soon her father kills bootlegging chief Blackie (Stanley Fields), at the urging of Big Fella Maskal (Paul Lukas), because Blackie was against Maskal's involvement with Blackie's gun moll Aggie (Wynne Gibson).
After Pop shoots Blackie, he passes the gun to Nan, thus implicating her in the murder. She naïvely takes the rap, believing the mob will arrange for her acquittal, but is sent to prison. Pop Cooley tries to convince The Kid to join the gang to free Nan, and he does so out of love for her. However, her attitude had changed since she was railroaded to prison. When The Kid visits Nan in prison in a fur coat, she becomes terrified of his involvement with Pop's gang after witnessing a fellow inmate's mobster boyfriend being gunned down outside the prison gate. When Nan is released, having served her term, she wants nothing more to do with the mob. She tries to persuade The Kid to quit the gang, but he refuses. Things go downhill from there. She finds that her father is unrepentant and involved with a loose, gold-digging woman named Pansy (Betty Sinclair). Maskal soon takes a strong liking to Nan and throws her a homecoming party, forcing her to dance with him all evening. When The Kid finally asserts his claim over Nan, Maskal threatens him, then later sends his thugs to kill him, but The Kid successfully disarms them, then goes after Maskal.
Terrified her lover will be killed, Nan goes to Maskal to warn him and offers herself to him in exchange for The Kid's life. Aggie, now Maskal's mistress, shoots him with Nan's gun after he leaves her for Nan, and Nan is accused of murder. The Kid then names himself mob chief and escapes with Nan in a car with three of Maskal's men, but they aim to kill him. The Kid and Nan are then taken "for a ride" by rival thugs. They race a train and maintain high speeds. Nan pulls a gun on the men and disarms them. Dropping the thugs off with "no hard feelings", The Kid tells them he has quit the beer business, and he and Nan drive off.
Cast (in credits order)
- Gary Cooper as The Kid
- Sylvia Sidney as Nan Cooley
- Paul Lukas as Big Fellow Maskal
- William "Stage" Boyd as McCoy
- Wynne Gibson as Aggie
- Guy Kibbee as Pop Cooley
- Stanley Fields as Blackie
- Betty Sinclair as Pansy
- Robert Homans as Police Inspector
Reception
In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Gangster Films list.[1]
References
- "AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
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External links
- City Streets at the American Film Institute Catalog
- City Streets at IMDb
- City Streets at AllMovie
- City Streets at the TCM Movie Database
На других языках
- [en] City Streets (1931 film)
[ru] Городские улицы
«Городские улицы» (англ. City Streets) — американский гангстерский фильм режиссёра Рубена Мамуляна, который вышел на экраны в 1931 году.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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