The Bowery
Screening on Film
Directed by Raoul Walsh.
With Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper.
US, 1933, 35mm, black & white, 90 min.
With Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper.
US, 1933, 35mm, black & white, 90 min.
New York City in the 1890s, and a swell early 1930s cast: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Jackie Cooper, and George Raft, who plays Steve Brodie, the fool who leapt off the Brooklyn Bridge. Relaxed direction is by Raoul Walsh (High Sierra, White Heat), among America’s most unappreciated filmmakers.
