Big City Blues (1932)

Directed by

Mervyn LeRoy

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man arrives in New York City hoping to make it big. He gets caught up in a wild party with showgirls and gangsters that ends in tragedy.

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What happens

Big City Blues is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse and stars Joan Blondell and Eric Linden, with uncredited early appearances by Humphrey Bogart and Lyle Talbot. Original prints and copies of the motion picture are preserved in the collections of the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and in other major film repositories. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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