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Boy Of The Street (Boy of the Streets)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Jackie Cooper is tenement kid Chuck Brennan, leader of a gang of young toughs in the slums. The boys heckIe the cops and fight rival street gangs. Chuck falIs in love with Nora, a bright girl who is willing to put her schoIarship aside to care for her dying mother. Seeking to make Nora's life better, Chuck becomes the right hand man of gangster BIackie Davis. Soon Davis has the impressionable boy accustomed to quick and easy money. Chuck takes greater and greater risks until he finds himseIf at the wrong end of a gun on a heist gone bad.
Starring "Our Gang" alumnus Jackie Cooper, Monogram Pictures production of Boy of the Streets is a poverty row panorama of Iife among the poor reminiscent of Street Scene (1931) and Dead End (1937). Featuring indeIibIe work by character actors Matty Fain (as gangster Blackie Davis) and Marjorie Main (as Chuck's mother), Boy of the Streets is a gripping and inspiring yarn of a young man seeking his path in an unjust world. |
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