City Streets (1931)
- Directed by
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 46 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A racketeer's daughter is in love with a shooting gallery showman who does not want to join the criminal underworld. Her father gets her involved in a murder and she goes to prison, leading the showman to join the gang to free her.
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What happens
City Streets is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic melodrama directed by Rouben Mamoulian from a story by Dashiell Hammett and stars Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas. The story concerns a racketeer's daughter, Nan, who is in love with a shooting gallery showman, who is known as The Kid. Despite her prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money to support her in the lifestyle to which she is accustomed. Her father implicates her in a murder, and she is sent to prison. Her father then convinces The Kid to join the gang to free Nan. In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Gangster Films list. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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