On the Bowery

On the Bowery is a 1956 American docufiction film directed by Lionel Rogosin. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The film chronicles three desperate days in a then impoverished lower Manhattan neighborhood, New Yorks skid row the Bowery. It is the story of Ray Ray Salyer, a railroad worker, who drifts on to the Bowery to have a drunken spree after a long bout of laying tracks and then falls in with a band of drunks who help him spend his money.Ray, the new guy on the Bowery, whose biceps still fill out his sleeves, looks preoccupied as he enters the Confidence Bar amp Grill. Surrounded by various alcoholics in advanced states of decay, he buys them rounds of drinks, then blacks out on his first night, and wakes up to discover that his suitcase has been stolen. ........

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