City Streets

City Streets

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. 83 mins. (1931)

Gary Cooper – The Kid

A carnival sharpshooter is drawn into the criminal underworld when the woman he loves, the daughter of a powerful racketeer, is imprisoned for a murder tied to her father’s gang—forcing him to choose between loyalty to her and the violent life he never wanted.

Also starring Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William “Stage” Boyd, and Wynne Gibson.

The film features one of early sound cinema’s first dramatic flashback devices, with previously heard dialogue replayed over a striking close-up of Sylvia Sidney’s tear-streaked face as she relives past events.

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