The Bowery

Oct 7, 1933

1h 32m

★ 5.0

Overview

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

20th Century Pictures

The Bowery Trailers

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Cast

Chuck Connors

Wallace Beery

Steve Brodie

George Raft

Swipes McGurk

Jackie Cooper

Lucy Calhoun

Fay Wray

Trixie Odbray

Pert Kelton

Max Herman

Herman Bing

Ivan Rummel

Oscar Apfel

Honest Mike

Ferdinand Munier

John L. Sullivan

George Walsh

Carrie A. Nation

Lillian Harmer

Blonde (uncredited)

Lucille Ball

Pug (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

7.5

Frankenstein

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7.3

Duck Soup

Nov 12, 1933

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

6.9

42nd Street

Mar 11, 1933

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

3.0

Convention City

Dec 14, 1933

Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.

4.0

Traveling Husbands

Aug 15, 1931

A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.

4.7

Children of Pleasure

Apr 26, 1930

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

4.8

Dancers in the Dark

Mar 11, 1932

A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.

4.1

Don't Bet on Women

Feb 15, 1931

At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Fallon kiss her for 48 hours. Fallon takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Herbert's wife, Jeanne Drake...

4.9

The Devil Is Driving

Dec 9, 1932

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.

4.9

Fast and Loose

Nov 8, 1930

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

3.7

Goldie

Jun 27, 1931

Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.

6.0

Tess of the Storm Country

Nov 20, 1932

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.

7.3

One Way Passage

Oct 4, 1932

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

4.1

Ladies' Man

Apr 16, 1931

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."

7.0

Monkey Business

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Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

6.9

Horse Feathers

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Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.