City Streets

Friday, June 20 - Sunday, June 22, 2014

35mm print

“Strikingly stylised bootlegging yarn, more romance than gangster movie, said to have been an Al Capone favourite because the gang boss (Paul Lukas), far from rampaging Cagney-style with machine-gun in the streets, is always careful to be seen to have clean hands: all deaths take place discreetly off-screen, and a contract to kill drawn up in an offhand line of dialogue (‘I’d be willing to do business with you, if anything happened to Blackie’) is equally elliptically sealed when the other party lights his cigar, looks at the match, and then pensively snuffs it out… [Mamoulian] creates a wonderfully evocative, low-key atmosphere not dissimilar to Sternberg’s Underworld with terrific camerawork from Lee Garmes, and fine performances from Cooper and Sidney as the young lovers enmeshed in the rackets” – Time Out (London)

• Country USA
• Rating NR
• Year 1931
• Running Time 83 minutes
• Director Rouben Mamoulian

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