Word: chucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chuck Connors Wallace Beery Steve Brody George Raft Swipes Jackle Cooper Lucy Calhoun...
...Jackle Cooper, there is sticky and unpleasant sentiment. Since Wallace Beery is present, there is heavy comedy; since George Raft is on the scene there is someone tough and light and virile. All these things, predicted from a reading of the east, come true. Nevertheless, the show is entertaining. Chuck Connors, a saloonkeeper, wallows about in a sea of beer and oaths, delivering beautiful blows to the jaws of his enemies, and, at one point, emitting a belch which is a classic. He is flashy and rude, with diamond horseshoes and checkered suits; he is not always convincing...
...actually there and were ably cast as the leaders of the Bowery in its glamorous era. Naturally it was necessary to show what happened to a girl from Albany in the wicked city. Fay Wray is the charming victim, and although she is in constant company with Steve and Chuck, she retains her simple, sweet, and virtuous habits to the very end. A superior "poof" from Mr. Walsh, the director, should help much in making other directors pay less attention to environment in the future. I heartily recommend "The Bowery" with the exception of the last five minutes which seemed...
...Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) is a loud, muddleheaded, arrogant publican, proud of his door-knob derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When...
...nonchalance in the way Raoul Walsh directed The Bowery. It is a gay cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...