The Strip

Aug 31, 1951

1h 25m

★ 5.7

M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!

Overview

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Music

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The Strip Trailers

Cast

Stanley Maxton

Mickey Rooney

Jane Tafford

Sally Forrest

Fluff

William Demarest

Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson

James Craig

Edna

Kay Brown

Himself

Louis Armstrong

Paulette Ardrey

Myrna Dell

Himself

Vic Damone

Sam

Art Lewis

Artie Ardrey

Tommy Rettig

Lt. Detective Bonnabel

Tom Powers

Behr

Jonathan Cott

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