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Chuck Connors Wallace Beery Steve Brody George Raft Swipes Jackle Cooper Lucy Calhoun...
Chuck Connors Wallace Beery Steve Brodie George Raft Lucy Calhoun Fay Wray Swipes McGurk Jackie Cooper...
Wallace Beery and George Raft put a little more life into their parts than was 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...
...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 Connors gives little Swipes a spanking...
...energy with which President Lowell goes about filling his summer "vacation is a phenomenon of the first order. Sport and business mix in equal proportion" is a phenomenon of the first order, sunny hours back-diving from his raft in Cotuit, and speeding ahead of motorcycle cops in his snappy green Buick phaeton (Lowell at the wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans...