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The Strip (1951)
Directed by: László Kardos (as Leslie Kardos)
Production Company: MGM
Country: USA
Duration: 80 Min.
Produced by: Joe Pasternak
Writing credits: Allen Rivkin
Cinematography by: Robert Surtees (B/W)
Music: Leo Arnaud, Pete Rugolo, George Stoll
Film Editing by: Albert Akst
Art Direction by: Cedric Gibbons , Leonid Vasian
Songs:
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Louis Armstrong (uncredited)
Shadrack
by Robert MacGimsey
Performed by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (uncredited)
La Bota
by Charles Wolcott, Haven Gillespie (as Haven Gillespie II)
Performed by Monica Lewis and unidentified latin jazz band
Basin Street Blues
by Spencer Williams
Performed by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (uncredited)
Don't Blame Me
by Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields
Performed by Vic Damone
Hines' Retreat
(uncredited)
Written by Earl 'Fatha' Hines
Fatha's Time
(uncredited)
Written by Earl 'Fatha' Hines
J.T. Jive
(uncredited)
Written by Louis Armstrong
Ole Miss Blues
(uncredited)
Written by W.C. Handy
That's-a-Plenty
(uncredited)
Written by Lew Pollack
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Mickey Rooney and William Demarest
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Kay Brown
Cast:
Mickey Rooney ... Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest ... Jane Tafford
William Demarest ... Fluff
James Craig ... Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown ... Edna
Tommy Rettig ... Artie Ardrey
Tom Powers ... Lieutenant Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan Cott ... Behr
Tommy Farrell ... Boynton
Myrna Dell ... Paulette Ardrey
Jacqueline Fontaine ... Frieda
Jonathan Cott Jonathan Cott...Behr
Tommy Farrell ... Boynton
Louis Armstrong ... Himself
Vic Damone ... Himself
Monica Lewis ... Herself
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044083/
Sinopsis:
El baterista Stanley Maxton se muda a Los Ángeles con el sueño de abrir su propio club, pero se junta con un gángster y un bailarina de un club nocturno y termina viéndose envuelto en un asesinato.
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Review from Raven (noiroftheweek)
The Strip is Mickey Rooney’s second of his three early 50’s noirs and is sandwiched nicely between and Quicksand and Drive a Crooked Road. In the former Mickey plays an auto mechanic lead astray by a dame. Ditto the latter so it’s no small coincidence automobiles play a major role in Mickey’s deadly dilemma in The Strip but more on that later.
Released by MGM in 1951 with the tagline “M.G.M.’s Musical Melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer," The Strip is rather an unconventional noir to say the least, but more on that later.
The Strip, besides the aforementioned Rooney as Stan Maxton, stars Sally Forrest as Jane Tafford, James Craig as Sonny Johnson and William (Uncle Charley) Demarest as Fluff. More than ample support is provided by noir regulars Tom Powers, Don Haggerty, and Robert Foulk. Support on the musical side is given by Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and 23 year old Vic Damone, one gent in Tinseltown who’d never be caught wearing a monogrammed sweater! Also of note is the rotten kid played by pre-Lassie, Tommy Rettig.
We open with the conventional wide angle shot of the city and voice-over narration introducing the viewer to Los Angeles at 5:00 A.M. and more specifically “...The Strip. It’s just a piece of land running a mile and a half through Hollywood.” Seems a prowl car is racing down the road for reasons unknown to which the narrator tells us “Might be a traffic accident, or a prowler, or maybe something for Homicide?” Give you three guesses which the first two don’t count.
The deputies rush into an apartment and find the limp body of Jane Tafford lying on the floor. Soon thereafter in another part of the city, police detectives find local gangster and playboy Sonny Johnson dead of a gunshot wound. Both he and the weapon are laying on the floor of his Hollywood Hills bachelor pad. The connection between Tafford and Johnson? If you guessed Stan Maxton go to the head of the class. Seems one was Stan’s squeeze and the other his boss and I’m not telling which was which.
The cops of course easily find Stan at his apartment, worse the wear from a recent beating and packing his bags for a quick trip out of town to Sun Valley. Once downtown he’s shown a photo of Tafford, and he admits he knew her. Shown a photo of Johnson, he also admits he knows him. When this is done, the investigating officer, Lieutenant Detective Bonnabel (Powers) tells Stan that Jane is “very ill.” To which Stan replies “If Sonny Johnson’s hurt her at all I’ll kill him dead as a doornail!”
Bonnabel points out that’d be tough given the fact Johnson’s already dead and begins grilling Stan for info about Johnson and his connection with him. “If I tell you my life’s story I’ll be here forever,” states Stan and of course that’s precisely what he proceeds to do and the noir staple, the flashback kicks in.
Several years earlier we see Stan before a board of doctors at a Veterans Hospital. While it’s never made clear, it appears to be more of a mental hospital as once the doctors give him his release Stan tells them “Thank you doctors for helping to straighten me out.” While inquiring about future plans and if he’s been on the drums, Stan indicates he’ll be heading for Los Angeles and getting his old band back together. As a going away gift the other G.I.s have pitched in to give Stan a drum set on which he’s given the first opportunity to display his ample talents on the skins.
Soon on the road with his drums piled high in the back of his jalopy, Stan makes his first of several fateful encounters with automobiles. While attempting to pass the slow motoring Stan another car forces him off the road wrecking both his car and drums. The errant driver stops to give assistance, offers to pay for all the damages and even drives Stan all the way to LA. This is none other than Sonny Johnson.
Once in LA Sonny convinces Stan to forgo the drums and instead cast his lot with him to the tune of two hundred bucks a week working in one of his bookmaking joints. Things are going great till the joints are knocked off by the cops. Here’s where being short of stature pays off, for as the cops are rounding up the bookies, Stan’s able to slip under a table and scoot out a window. In his flight to escape he hops into the moving car of one Jane Tafford whom he tells the story he’s running from his wife and eight kids!
In real life, Rooney at the time only had two children and it’d be several more years until he finally had and surpassed eight with nine! Talk about life imitating art!
Anyway, Jane doesn’t buy his story but figures he’s harmless and lets him know she dances at a place on The Strip know as Fluff’s and he should stop on by sometime. Of course “some time” turns out to be that very night. Ends up Fluff’s is a Dixieland joint and no less than Louis Armstrong and His Band are the headliners! Jane doubles as the cigarette girl and dances at the club and of course Stan falls all over himself trying to get her to give him a tumble.
In that Jane won’t date a fellow unless Fluff gives him his blessing, Stan hangs around till closing and once the place clears out begins messing around on the drums. So impressed is he Fluff not only gives the Stan the green light with Jane but also offers him a job to play drums.
What follows is Stan walking out on Sonny for Jane and Fluff, Jane walking out on Stan for Sonny, Stan involved in two more automobile accidents, Sonny offering Stan the chance to head up his Phoenix bookie operation, Stan refusing and getting his brains beat out and Jane rushing to his defense and a double murder. Talk about a tin of mixed nuts!
While clocking in at 85 minutes the action, combined with top notch musical numbers, discounting the duet Stan and Fluff sing, the whole production moves very quickly. While mentioning musical numbers, I’m not a fan of the obligatory numbers that are woven within the fabric of many noirs. There are some exceptions, Road House and Gilda come to mind, but The Strip offers first class talent doing what they do best and there’s never a distraction from the story. The whole production comes together very nicely and as the tagline says it’s the “Musical Melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer.”
http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2009/04/strip-1951.html
Review from Patrick (web: threemoviebuffs)
The Strip opens with police cars racing down Sunset BLVD as the sun rises over the Hollywood Hills, accompanied by voice-over narration that sets the scene before we flashback to the events leading up to this police emergency. And no, they aren't racing towards Norma Desmond's mansion. Although the script for The Strip sounds like the kind of movie Joe Gillis might have written. It even has a great part for Bill Demarest.
Mickey Rooney stars as Stanley Maxton, a drummer recently returned from Korea. He heads to L.A. where – again like Joe Gillis – he has an incident in his car that dramatically alters the course of his life. In a fender bender he meets a bookie and his moll-with-a-heart-of-gold, and gets hired taking bets over the phone. Before long he's in deep and living the good life. Then he meets a cigarette girl/dancer with dreams of stardom and suddenly his priorities change. Stanley wants out of the rackets and he auditions to be a drummer in Louis Armstrong's jazz band. This leads us back to the opening scene.
It ends with a false confession at a police station a la Mildred Pierce – only with a different twist. But this being MGM, not Paramount or Warner's, they couldn't just make this a film noir, they had to make it a musical too. The musical numbers all take place at Fluff's Dixieland nightclub (where the legendary Louis Armstrong and his band appear nightly!). Fluff, who also tinkles the ivories, is played by the aforementioned William Demarest.
This movie is a jazz lover's dream. In between the melodrama, Louis Armstrong and his orchestra play several lively jazz numbers such as the tongue-twisting "Shadrack" and the iconic "Basin Street Blues". Rooney joins them on the drums a few times. Singers Vic Damone and Monica Lewis get a solo apiece. The song “A Kiss to Build a Dream On” by Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II was Oscar nominated. It gets performed several times during the film, most notably by Armstrong and his orchestra. For good measure Sally Forrest performs several jazzy style dance numbers alongside a few finger-snapping male dancers. It's up to each viewer to decide whether or not it works, but the incongruity of the gritty crime drama plot interspersed with a stream of musical interludes is undeniably odd.
Another interesting thing about The Strip is the fact that it was shot mostly on location. This was quite unusual in Hollywood at the time, since most movies were then shot on sound-stages and studio back-lots. The Sunset Strip as it appeared in the early 1950s is captured in glorious black and white cinematography. Some of the interiors were shot at both Mocambo and Ciro's, popular nightclubs on the Strip. Likewise scenes were also shot at real life restaurants Little Hungary and Stripps.
Mickey Rooney plays one of his first truly adult parts as Stanley Maxton. He's cynical and world weary but still has the old Rooney energy and ambition. And he got to display yet another of his many talents – drumming. Just over 30 when he made this movie, Mickey was already a weathered 20-year veteran of Hollywood motion pictures. Despite the similarities between their films' opening scenes, Joe Gillis is one of the most famous characters in Hollywood history while Stanley Maxton is barely remembered at all.
http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review/strip.html
Review by Dennis Schwartz (Plot Synopsis from allmovie)
A minor mystery story that's given some high gloss in its production by the MGM
studio system, as Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and his distinguished band made up
Jack Teagarden, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Barney Bigard serenade us with a few
numbers and there are various other jazz pieces included from singers Monica
Lewis and Vic Damone. It's set on the intriguing Sunset Strip where Mickey
Rooney plays the sincere little guy, Stanley Maxton, a jazz drummer who is
accused of murder.
The film opens at 5 a.m. and the police are called to the Strip, and they find a
woman named Jane Tafford (Sally Forrest) who is in critical condition from a
gunshot wound. The neighbor who called, Paulette Ardrey, is an aspiring actress
and close friend of the victim. She mentions that Jane worked as a dancer at
Fluff's Dixieland Club. Later that morning the police find the body of mobster
Sonny Johnson (James Craig) in his ritzy home and connect his murder with
Jane's. The police bring Stan down to the station for questioning because they
believe he is somehow involved. He worked for Sonny and dated Jane. When he's
grilled by Lt. Bonnabel (Powers), the film goes into flashback as Stan tells his
tale of woe from the time he was discharged from a VA hospital. In the Korean
War he was injured but after a long rehabilitation he was cured and was heading
to LA to pursue his career as a jazz drummer, when his car was knocked
accidently off the road by a speeding car driven by Sonny Johnson. Sonny's
girlfriend Frieda talks him into paying for the damages to Stan's car and his
drums, which was a gift from his fellow patients. Sonny then talks him into
working for him in the gambling rackets and getting big money--$200 a week. The
kid sees this as a chance to save up some serious dough and open a club of his
own in a few years, as Sonny promises him that he can quit whenever he wants to.
After working the rackets for a year under the cover of being in the insurance
game, his gambling house is raided by the police but he manages to escape by
jumping into a car driven by Jane. When he goes to see her act at Fluff's, he
discovers she's a cigarette girl who also performs as a dancer. She tries to put
off his advances by saying she can't go out without the club owner's approval.
When Fluff (William Demarest) is about to perform his bouncer's duty for her, he
discovers Stan is a first-rate drummer and offers him a job for $90 a week. But
Stan turns him down. As a return favor for Fluff, who really needs a drummer to
replace his regular one who is going into the army, Jane promises to go out with
him only if he takes the job.
Sonny has no problem with Stan's leaving, but warns him not to rat him out. But
Jane turns out to be an obstacle. She's an aspiring actress who is career-crazy,
as she won't date anyone unless they can help her get into pictures. Stan feels
he has no choice but to take her to see Sonny for help and in that way gain
favor with her, but that turns out to be a mistake as Sonny promises her he can
help with his Hollywood contacts but quickly moves in on the blinded-by-ambition
beauty and never gets her a movie deal. But Jane falls for his gift of gab and
rebuffs Stan for the wealthy and handsome gangster, whom she doesn't know is a
gangster. Meanwhile Stan stalks her and out of jealousy tells her Sonny's a
big-time hood. This upsets Sonny, and he arranges for Stan to go to Phoenix and
work there in one of his illegal gambling houses. When Stan refuses to leave
town, he is beaten up by Sonny's thugs and his life is threatened. When Jane
finds out what happened to Stan, she tells him that she doesn't love him but is
going over to Sonny's to straighten things out. That's where the flashback at
the police station ends and the surprise conclusion clears up the murder
mystery.
The breezy story line, the snappy jazz interludes, and some engaging scenes made
it very appealing. Craig as the smooth villain who has a fixation with his
horticultural collection he keeps in his office, gave his part a strange
sinister tone to it. Rooney is super as the perennial victim of life who only
finds his soul when he's lost in his music. The film effectively captured the
existential mood and the glee derived from the club scene on the Strip. It's an
above-average mystery story that could be categorized as film noir because of
Rooney's pained expression as a victim of love.
Review by Dennis Schwartz (Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com)
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The Strip (1951)
Directed by: László Kardos (as Leslie Kardos)
Production Company: MGM
Country: USA
Duration: 80 Min.
Produced by: Joe Pasternak
Writing credits: Allen Rivkin
Cinematography by: Robert Surtees (B/W)
Music: Leo Arnaud, Pete Rugolo, George Stoll
Film Editing by: Albert Akst
Art Direction by: Cedric Gibbons , Leonid Vasian
Songs:
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Louis Armstrong (uncredited)
Shadrack
by Robert MacGimsey
Performed by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (uncredited)
La Bota
by Charles Wolcott, Haven Gillespie (as Haven Gillespie II)
Performed by Monica Lewis and unidentified latin jazz band
Basin Street Blues
by Spencer Williams
Performed by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (uncredited)
Don't Blame Me
by Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields
Performed by Vic Damone
Hines' Retreat
(uncredited)
Written by Earl 'Fatha' Hines
Fatha's Time
(uncredited)
Written by Earl 'Fatha' Hines
J.T. Jive
(uncredited)
Written by Louis Armstrong
Ole Miss Blues
(uncredited)
Written by W.C. Handy
That's-a-Plenty
(uncredited)
Written by Lew Pollack
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Mickey Rooney and William Demarest
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Kay Brown
Cast:
Mickey Rooney ... Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest ... Jane Tafford
William Demarest ... Fluff
James Craig ... Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown ... Edna
Tommy Rettig ... Artie Ardrey
Tom Powers ... Lieutenant Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan Cott ... Behr
Tommy Farrell ... Boynton
Myrna Dell ... Paulette Ardrey
Jacqueline Fontaine ... Frieda
Jonathan Cott Jonathan Cott...Behr
Tommy Farrell ... Boynton
Louis Armstrong ... Himself
Vic Damone ... Himself
Monica Lewis ... Herself
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044083/
Sinopsis:
El baterista Stanley Maxton se muda a Los Ángeles con el sueño de abrir su propio club, pero se junta con un gángster y un bailarina de un club nocturno y termina viéndose envuelto en un asesinato.
Comentarios:
Review from Raven (noiroftheweek)
The Strip is Mickey Rooney’s second of his three early 50’s noirs and is sandwiched nicely between and Quicksand and Drive a Crooked Road. In the former Mickey plays an auto mechanic lead astray by a dame. Ditto the latter so it’s no small coincidence automobiles play a major role in Mickey’s deadly dilemma in The Strip but more on that later.
Released by MGM in 1951 with the tagline “M.G.M.’s Musical Melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer," The Strip is rather an unconventional noir to say the least, but more on that later.
The Strip, besides the aforementioned Rooney as Stan Maxton, stars Sally Forrest as Jane Tafford, James Craig as Sonny Johnson and William (Uncle Charley) Demarest as Fluff. More than ample support is provided by noir regulars Tom Powers, Don Haggerty, and Robert Foulk. Support on the musical side is given by Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and 23 year old Vic Damone, one gent in Tinseltown who’d never be caught wearing a monogrammed sweater! Also of note is the rotten kid played by pre-Lassie, Tommy Rettig.
We open with the conventional wide angle shot of the city and voice-over narration introducing the viewer to Los Angeles at 5:00 A.M. and more specifically “...The Strip. It’s just a piece of land running a mile and a half through Hollywood.” Seems a prowl car is racing down the road for reasons unknown to which the narrator tells us “Might be a traffic accident, or a prowler, or maybe something for Homicide?” Give you three guesses which the first two don’t count.
The deputies rush into an apartment and find the limp body of Jane Tafford lying on the floor. Soon thereafter in another part of the city, police detectives find local gangster and playboy Sonny Johnson dead of a gunshot wound. Both he and the weapon are laying on the floor of his Hollywood Hills bachelor pad. The connection between Tafford and Johnson? If you guessed Stan Maxton go to the head of the class. Seems one was Stan’s squeeze and the other his boss and I’m not telling which was which.
The cops of course easily find Stan at his apartment, worse the wear from a recent beating and packing his bags for a quick trip out of town to Sun Valley. Once downtown he’s shown a photo of Tafford, and he admits he knew her. Shown a photo of Johnson, he also admits he knows him. When this is done, the investigating officer, Lieutenant Detective Bonnabel (Powers) tells Stan that Jane is “very ill.” To which Stan replies “If Sonny Johnson’s hurt her at all I’ll kill him dead as a doornail!”
Bonnabel points out that’d be tough given the fact Johnson’s already dead and begins grilling Stan for info about Johnson and his connection with him. “If I tell you my life’s story I’ll be here forever,” states Stan and of course that’s precisely what he proceeds to do and the noir staple, the flashback kicks in.
Several years earlier we see Stan before a board of doctors at a Veterans Hospital. While it’s never made clear, it appears to be more of a mental hospital as once the doctors give him his release Stan tells them “Thank you doctors for helping to straighten me out.” While inquiring about future plans and if he’s been on the drums, Stan indicates he’ll be heading for Los Angeles and getting his old band back together. As a going away gift the other G.I.s have pitched in to give Stan a drum set on which he’s given the first opportunity to display his ample talents on the skins.
Soon on the road with his drums piled high in the back of his jalopy, Stan makes his first of several fateful encounters with automobiles. While attempting to pass the slow motoring Stan another car forces him off the road wrecking both his car and drums. The errant driver stops to give assistance, offers to pay for all the damages and even drives Stan all the way to LA. This is none other than Sonny Johnson.
Once in LA Sonny convinces Stan to forgo the drums and instead cast his lot with him to the tune of two hundred bucks a week working in one of his bookmaking joints. Things are going great till the joints are knocked off by the cops. Here’s where being short of stature pays off, for as the cops are rounding up the bookies, Stan’s able to slip under a table and scoot out a window. In his flight to escape he hops into the moving car of one Jane Tafford whom he tells the story he’s running from his wife and eight kids!
In real life, Rooney at the time only had two children and it’d be several more years until he finally had and surpassed eight with nine! Talk about life imitating art!
Anyway, Jane doesn’t buy his story but figures he’s harmless and lets him know she dances at a place on The Strip know as Fluff’s and he should stop on by sometime. Of course “some time” turns out to be that very night. Ends up Fluff’s is a Dixieland joint and no less than Louis Armstrong and His Band are the headliners! Jane doubles as the cigarette girl and dances at the club and of course Stan falls all over himself trying to get her to give him a tumble.
In that Jane won’t date a fellow unless Fluff gives him his blessing, Stan hangs around till closing and once the place clears out begins messing around on the drums. So impressed is he Fluff not only gives the Stan the green light with Jane but also offers him a job to play drums.
What follows is Stan walking out on Sonny for Jane and Fluff, Jane walking out on Stan for Sonny, Stan involved in two more automobile accidents, Sonny offering Stan the chance to head up his Phoenix bookie operation, Stan refusing and getting his brains beat out and Jane rushing to his defense and a double murder. Talk about a tin of mixed nuts!
While clocking in at 85 minutes the action, combined with top notch musical numbers, discounting the duet Stan and Fluff sing, the whole production moves very quickly. While mentioning musical numbers, I’m not a fan of the obligatory numbers that are woven within the fabric of many noirs. There are some exceptions, Road House and Gilda come to mind, but The Strip offers first class talent doing what they do best and there’s never a distraction from the story. The whole production comes together very nicely and as the tagline says it’s the “Musical Melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer.”
http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2009/04/strip-1951.html
Review from Patrick (web: threemoviebuffs)
The Strip opens with police cars racing down Sunset BLVD as the sun rises over the Hollywood Hills, accompanied by voice-over narration that sets the scene before we flashback to the events leading up to this police emergency. And no, they aren't racing towards Norma Desmond's mansion. Although the script for The Strip sounds like the kind of movie Joe Gillis might have written. It even has a great part for Bill Demarest.
Mickey Rooney stars as Stanley Maxton, a drummer recently returned from Korea. He heads to L.A. where – again like Joe Gillis – he has an incident in his car that dramatically alters the course of his life. In a fender bender he meets a bookie and his moll-with-a-heart-of-gold, and gets hired taking bets over the phone. Before long he's in deep and living the good life. Then he meets a cigarette girl/dancer with dreams of stardom and suddenly his priorities change. Stanley wants out of the rackets and he auditions to be a drummer in Louis Armstrong's jazz band. This leads us back to the opening scene.
It ends with a false confession at a police station a la Mildred Pierce – only with a different twist. But this being MGM, not Paramount or Warner's, they couldn't just make this a film noir, they had to make it a musical too. The musical numbers all take place at Fluff's Dixieland nightclub (where the legendary Louis Armstrong and his band appear nightly!). Fluff, who also tinkles the ivories, is played by the aforementioned William Demarest.
This movie is a jazz lover's dream. In between the melodrama, Louis Armstrong and his orchestra play several lively jazz numbers such as the tongue-twisting "Shadrack" and the iconic "Basin Street Blues". Rooney joins them on the drums a few times. Singers Vic Damone and Monica Lewis get a solo apiece. The song “A Kiss to Build a Dream On” by Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II was Oscar nominated. It gets performed several times during the film, most notably by Armstrong and his orchestra. For good measure Sally Forrest performs several jazzy style dance numbers alongside a few finger-snapping male dancers. It's up to each viewer to decide whether or not it works, but the incongruity of the gritty crime drama plot interspersed with a stream of musical interludes is undeniably odd.
Another interesting thing about The Strip is the fact that it was shot mostly on location. This was quite unusual in Hollywood at the time, since most movies were then shot on sound-stages and studio back-lots. The Sunset Strip as it appeared in the early 1950s is captured in glorious black and white cinematography. Some of the interiors were shot at both Mocambo and Ciro's, popular nightclubs on the Strip. Likewise scenes were also shot at real life restaurants Little Hungary and Stripps.
Mickey Rooney plays one of his first truly adult parts as Stanley Maxton. He's cynical and world weary but still has the old Rooney energy and ambition. And he got to display yet another of his many talents – drumming. Just over 30 when he made this movie, Mickey was already a weathered 20-year veteran of Hollywood motion pictures. Despite the similarities between their films' opening scenes, Joe Gillis is one of the most famous characters in Hollywood history while Stanley Maxton is barely remembered at all.
http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review/strip.html
Review by Dennis Schwartz (Plot Synopsis from allmovie)
A minor mystery story that's given some high gloss in its production by the MGM
studio system, as Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and his distinguished band made up
Jack Teagarden, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Barney Bigard serenade us with a few
numbers and there are various other jazz pieces included from singers Monica
Lewis and Vic Damone. It's set on the intriguing Sunset Strip where Mickey
Rooney plays the sincere little guy, Stanley Maxton, a jazz drummer who is
accused of murder.
The film opens at 5 a.m. and the police are called to the Strip, and they find a
woman named Jane Tafford (Sally Forrest) who is in critical condition from a
gunshot wound. The neighbor who called, Paulette Ardrey, is an aspiring actress
and close friend of the victim. She mentions that Jane worked as a dancer at
Fluff's Dixieland Club. Later that morning the police find the body of mobster
Sonny Johnson (James Craig) in his ritzy home and connect his murder with
Jane's. The police bring Stan down to the station for questioning because they
believe he is somehow involved. He worked for Sonny and dated Jane. When he's
grilled by Lt. Bonnabel (Powers), the film goes into flashback as Stan tells his
tale of woe from the time he was discharged from a VA hospital. In the Korean
War he was injured but after a long rehabilitation he was cured and was heading
to LA to pursue his career as a jazz drummer, when his car was knocked
accidently off the road by a speeding car driven by Sonny Johnson. Sonny's
girlfriend Frieda talks him into paying for the damages to Stan's car and his
drums, which was a gift from his fellow patients. Sonny then talks him into
working for him in the gambling rackets and getting big money--$200 a week. The
kid sees this as a chance to save up some serious dough and open a club of his
own in a few years, as Sonny promises him that he can quit whenever he wants to.
After working the rackets for a year under the cover of being in the insurance
game, his gambling house is raided by the police but he manages to escape by
jumping into a car driven by Jane. When he goes to see her act at Fluff's, he
discovers she's a cigarette girl who also performs as a dancer. She tries to put
off his advances by saying she can't go out without the club owner's approval.
When Fluff (William Demarest) is about to perform his bouncer's duty for her, he
discovers Stan is a first-rate drummer and offers him a job for $90 a week. But
Stan turns him down. As a return favor for Fluff, who really needs a drummer to
replace his regular one who is going into the army, Jane promises to go out with
him only if he takes the job.
Sonny has no problem with Stan's leaving, but warns him not to rat him out. But
Jane turns out to be an obstacle. She's an aspiring actress who is career-crazy,
as she won't date anyone unless they can help her get into pictures. Stan feels
he has no choice but to take her to see Sonny for help and in that way gain
favor with her, but that turns out to be a mistake as Sonny promises her he can
help with his Hollywood contacts but quickly moves in on the blinded-by-ambition
beauty and never gets her a movie deal. But Jane falls for his gift of gab and
rebuffs Stan for the wealthy and handsome gangster, whom she doesn't know is a
gangster. Meanwhile Stan stalks her and out of jealousy tells her Sonny's a
big-time hood. This upsets Sonny, and he arranges for Stan to go to Phoenix and
work there in one of his illegal gambling houses. When Stan refuses to leave
town, he is beaten up by Sonny's thugs and his life is threatened. When Jane
finds out what happened to Stan, she tells him that she doesn't love him but is
going over to Sonny's to straighten things out. That's where the flashback at
the police station ends and the surprise conclusion clears up the murder
mystery.
The breezy story line, the snappy jazz interludes, and some engaging scenes made
it very appealing. Craig as the smooth villain who has a fixation with his
horticultural collection he keeps in his office, gave his part a strange
sinister tone to it. Rooney is super as the perennial victim of life who only
finds his soul when he's lost in his music. The film effectively captured the
existential mood and the glee derived from the club scene on the Strip. It's an
above-average mystery story that could be categorized as film noir because of
Rooney's pained expression as a victim of love.
Review by Dennis Schwartz (Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com)
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felipemarlou escribió: ↑Vie 12 Oct, 2018 09:29Subts completed.
Primeramente agradecer al que subió a la web kebekmac.forumprod.com la peli con subts en francés (vostfr), así como a su traductor.
Como viene siendo habitual, no es que fueran la leche en cuanto a la traducción (bastante mejorables) pero por lo menos me ahorraron los tiempos...en fin, que lo de siempre: retraduje casi todo de oído, y me apoyé en el francés en algunas cosas que no entendí (he de decir que Rooney disparaba como una metralleta pero aún así le entendía...o al menos casi siempre), desdoblé líneas...y traduje las canciones, apoyándome en webs de canciones para su mejora.
Uds la disfruten (o no).
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Subtítulos en francés:
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