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Crime in the Streets

"How can you tell them to be good when their girl friends like them better when they're bad!..."

1956-06-10 Crime 1hr 31m

A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.

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A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.

  • Released
    1956-06-10
  • Revenue
    n/a
  • Budget
    n/a
  • Runtime
    1hr 31m
  • Genre
    Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
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  • Production
    Lindbrook Productions, Allied Artists Pictures

Crew

Don Siegel
Director
Reginald Rose
Screenplay
Vincent M. Fennelly
Producer
Keywords:
street gang juvenile delinquent

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Cast

James Whitmore

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Ben Wagner
Sal Mineo

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Angelo 'Baby' Gioia
John Cassavetes

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Frankie Dane
Mark Rydell

Mark Rydell
Lou Macklin
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Peter J. Votrian

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Will Kuluva

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Malcolm Atterbury

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Denise Alexander

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A Review by John Chard 6

Written by John Chard on 2020-03-29

Sucking around is my job. Crime in the Streets is directed by Don Siegel and written by Reginald Rose. It stars John Cassavetes, James Wh... read more

Sucking around is my job. Crime in the Streets is directed by Don Siegel and written by Reginald Rose. It stars John Cassavetes, James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Virginia Gregg, Peter J. Votrian, Will Kuluva and Malcolm Atterbury. Music is scored by Franz Waxman and cinematography by Sam Leavitt. Social worker Ben Wagner (Whitmore) tries to help local slum gang, The Hornets, especially their troubled leader Frankie Dane (Cassavetes). When your body hits that sidewalk nobody will even turn around to look at yah. Decent "juve delinquent" lecture movie, Crime in the Streets boasts some mightily impressive performances and closes on a (expected) piece of dramatic worth, but the screenplay is staid and pic is claustrophobic for all the wrong reasons. There's a cramped cheapness to the production that doesn't suit the narrative and you can feel Siegel straining with every sinew to light a tinderbox with a damp match. However, Cassavetes' intense firecracker performance is worth the time of any classic era film fan, and with Whitmore doing good and controlled earnest and Gregg (sadly underused) tugging away at the maternal heart strings, it still comes out in credit. There's a bonus, too, in the form of Waxman's blending of stabby jazz shards with momentum building percussion, it's quality, even if ultimately it deserves a better movie. 6/10

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A Review by John Chard

Sucking around is my job. Crime in the Streets is directed by Don Siegel and written by Reginald Rose. It stars John Cassavetes, James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Virginia Gregg, Peter J. Votrian, Will Kuluva and Malcolm Atterbury....

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A Review by John Chard 6

Written by John Chard on 2020-03-29

Sucking around is my job. Crime in the Streets is directed by Don Siegel and written by Reginald Rose. It stars John Cassavetes, James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Virginia Gregg, Peter J. Vot...

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