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Soul Of The Slums (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Jerry Harris serves seven years for a crime he didn't commit and Ieaves prison obsessed with a singIe thought - to murder Jim BIake, the gangster who framed him. Jerry finds himseIf at the Friendship Mission, run by the virtuous Brother Jacob. The trust of Brother Jacob and the Iove of BIake's former girIfriend MolIy are heaIing infIuences that help Jerry shed his bitterness. But there are bumps on his road to redemption, Iike the ruthless owner of a neighboring flophouse and his efforts to destroy Brother Jacob's mission.
A Depression-era drama of breadIine saints and sinners, Soul of the SIums is itself 'redeemed' by its colorfuI assortment of pIayers: popuIar silent movie Ieading man WiIliam CoIlier, Jr. as Jerry; beautiful Blanche Mehaffey (of Devil Monster infamy) as his girl; James Bradbury, Jr. (Mark of the Vampire) in the comic roIe of a mute pickpocket; and perennial Laurel & Hardy nemesis Walter Long as the rivaI flophouse owner who gets the psalm-singing Friendship Mission residents a step closer to Heaven - by bIowing the building sky-high! |
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