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United States. Language. English. City Streets is a 1931 American Pre-Code film noir that is directed by Rouben Mamoulian from a story by Dashiell Hammett and stars Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas . This Pre-Code crime film is about a racketeer's daughter, Nan, who is in love with a shooting gallery showman, who is known as The Kid.
- April 18, 1931 (USA)
- Paramount Pictures
City Streets: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd. Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
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- Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
The sophisticated, atmospheric City Streets (1931) is an unjustly forgotten movie full of visual storytelling and expressionistic camerawork. For 1931, a year when movies were still learning to "move" again after the coming of sound, it's an especially impressive achievement, and it boasts the historical footnote of being - apparently - the first American film to use voiceover.
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Gary Cooper
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Jul 5, 2023 · Opinion: My Review Of ‘City Streets’ (1931) The first half of City Streets contains a number of Film Noir components. Pop Cooley’s silhouette in the hallway, as well as the shadows on the building wall before Blackie’s murder, are the most obvious visual examples. Nan’s jailhouse voice-over scene remains the most significant of these ...
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Jun 16, 2014 Apr 11, 2013 Rated: B Mar 22, 2012 May 4, 2011 Rated: C+ Oct 26, 2004. Advertise With Us. A mobster's daughter (Sylvia Sidney) leads her boyfriend (Gary Cooper) from the circus into ...
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- Gary Cooper
- Rouben Mamoulian
- April 18, 1931
Feb 8, 2014 · Some sources credit City Streets as an amalgamation of Hammett’s story and the earlier Paramount film Ladies of the Mob (1928), a silent directed by William A. Wellman and starring Clara Bow, but the similarities seem very basic. In Ladies of the Mob, Bow plays the daughter of an executed criminal with a background otherwise similar to Sidney ...
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