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Sydney Boehm (writer)
Release Date:
23 March 1950 (USA)
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Tagline:
Where temptation lurks! more
Plot:
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer - with catastrophic consequences. full summary | full synopsis
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Stylish film noir
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Farley Granger | ... | Joe Norson |
| Cathy O'Donnell | ... | Ellen Norson |
| James Craig | ... | George Garsell / Mr. Howard |
| Paul Kelly | ... | Capt. Walter Anderson |
| Jean Hagen | ... | Harriette Sinton (singer at Les Artises) |
| Paul Harvey | ... | Emil Lorrison |
| Edmon Ryan | ... | Victor Backett |
| Charles McGraw | ... | Det. Stan Simon |
| Edwin Max | ... | Nick Drumman / Stevenson (as Ed Max) |
| Adele Jergens | ... | Lucille 'Lucky' Colner |
| Harry Bellaver | ... | Larry Giff (cabdriver) |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Harold Simpson (chief teller) |
| John Gallaudet | ... | Gus Heldon (bar owner) |
| Esther Somers | ... | Mrs. Malby (Ellen's mother) |
| Harry Antrim | ... | Mr. Malby (Ellen's father) |
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83 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The drugstore that Joe Norson calls from is the set of another MGM Film Noir, _Tension (1950)_, which was shooting at approximately the same time.
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Capt. Walter Anderson: New York City: an architectural jungle where fabulous wealth and the deepest squalor live side by side. New York is the busiest, the loneliest, the kindest, and the cruelest of cities - a murder a day, every day of the year and each murder will wind up on my deak.
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Capt. Walter Anderson: New York City: an architectural jungle where fabulous wealth and the deepest squalor live side by side. New York is the busiest, the loneliest, the kindest, and the cruelest of cities - a murder a day, every day of the year and each murder will wind up on my deak.
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Featured in Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks (2007) (V)
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EASY TO LOVE
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"Side Street" is a stylish, if convoluted murder mystery about a failed small-time business man (Joe Norson) who is tempted into committing a robbery. Unfortunately the money he takes belongs to a couple of ruthless blackmailers, who aren't impressed when Joe offers to return it - mainly because the "friend" he left it with for safe-keeping helped himself to it. From then on, everything Joe tries gets him deeper into trouble.
Over-long and over-complicated, but competently made and in best film noir style makes good use of light and shade. Conveys well the general seediness and desperation of small-timers trying to make the big time in New York.
Very watchable, not least for Jean Hagen as the vamp who sets the guys up.