City Streets (film)

City Streets is a 1931 American PreCode film noir directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas.

Nan Cooley Sylvia Sidney, the daughter of racketeer Pop Cooley Guy Kibbee, is in love with The Kid Gary Cooper, a shooting gallery showman. Cooley tries to urge him to join the gang, in order to earn enough money to support her in the lifestyle she is accustomed to, but The Kid refuses. Soon her father kills bootlegging chief Blackie Stanley Fields, at the urging of Big Fella Maskal Paul Lukas, because Blackie was against Maskals involvement with Blackies gun moll Aggie Wynne Gibson.After Pop shoots Blackie, he passes the gun to Nan, thus implicating her in the murder. She navely takes the rap, believing the mob will arrange for her acquittal, but is sent to prison. Pop Cooley tries to convince The Kid to join the gang to free Nan, and he does so out of love for her. However, her attitude had changed since she was railroaded to prison. When The Kid visits Nan in prison in a fur coat, she becomes terrified of his involvement with Pops gang after witnessing a fellow inmates mobster boyfriend being gunned down outside the prison gate. When Nan is released, having served her term, she wants nothing more to do with the mob. She tries to persuade The Kid to quit the gang, but he refuses. Things go downhill from there. She finds that her father is unrepentant and involved with a loose, golddigging woman named Pansy Betty Sinclair. Maskal soon takes a strong liking to Nan and throws her a homecoming party, forcing her to dance with him all evening. When The Kid finally asserts his claim over Nan, Maskal threatens him, then later sends his thugs to kill him, but The Kid successfully disarms them, then goes after Maskal. ........

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