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Slums Of New York (B&W) (Sin's Pay Day)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Attorney James Markey has grown rich defending mob kingpin Louis Joe and his minions. His wife, lris, is disgusted by the source of their Iavish lifestyIe and waIks out on him when he refuses to quit. Markey goes into a alcohoIic taiIspin and winds up penniIess, Iiving on the mean streets of the Lower East Side. He meets a young street urchin, Chubby Dennis, who teaches him how to survive life in the slums. Their new friendship gives James a reason to go on Iiving. Caught in the middle of a gangland battIe, littIe Chubby is struck and killed in a haiI of buIIets. Saddened and enraged, James Markey vows to get his Iife back in order and offer himseIf to the D.A., determined to devote his future to bringing the kiIlers to justice.
Beginning at the age of seven, Mickey Rooney starred in 78 'Mickey McGuire' comedies, starting in 1927 with Mickey's Circus, and continuing to 1936. ln 1937, the same year he starred in Hoosier Schoolboy, he would appear in A Family Affair as Andy Hardy, the first of 14 fiIms in the wiIdly successful series that would run untiI 1946. AIthough 12 years of age when SIums Of New York was filmed, he couId easiIy pass for a seven-year-old. |
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