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Director:
Raoul Walsh
Writers:
Art Cohn (screenplay)
Art Cohn (story)
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Release Date:
6 June 1952 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama
Tagline:
Street of tough guys, hot tunes, temptation!
Plot:
In New Orleans, prizefighter Socks Barbarrosa suddenly runs out of the ring before his title bout, and swears he'll never fight again... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Bourbon Street balderdash... more

Cast

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Ralph Meeker ... Socks Barbarrosa
Leslie Caron ... Angela Evans
Kurt Kasznar ... Gus 'The Judge' Evans
Gilbert Roland ... Peppi Donnato
John McIntire ... Gabe Jordan / Narrator

Louis Armstrong ... Shadow Johnson
Jack Teagarden ... Himself
Dan Seymour ... Sal Nichols (The Pig)
Larry Gates ... Dr. Robert Ardley
Pat Goldin ... Jabber
John Indrisano ... Spider, the Bartender
Mickey Little ... Domingo
Dick Simmons ... Dan
Pat Valentino ... Terry Waulker

David McMahon ... Frank, the Policeman
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:79 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Norway:12 | Sweden:15

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Trivia:
This was the only black-and-white film in which Leslie Caron danced. more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Bourbon Street balderdash..., 16 November 2008
3/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Would-be 'hard-bitten' product from MGM suffers from too many disparate ingredients. A retiring newspaperman in New Orleans reflects on his best subject: a prize-fighter named Socks (!) who infamously deserted a boxing match at the eleventh hour; after stints as a huckster and as a soldier in the Korean War, he makes a celebrated comeback. This may very well be revered director Raoul Walsh's worst film--but really, no director could segue smoothly between these slabs of superficial melodrama, including a fighter with neuroses, his ballet-dancing girlfriend, her blind father the Judge, and a jazz-singing, trumpet-playing member of the troupe. As an early vehicle for Ralph Meeker and Leslie Caron, it's a wash-out; neither star is shown to a good advantage, although Caron's jerky choreography is an odd hoot and Meeker does look great in boxing gloves. Louis Armstrong's final musical number in a barroom is rousing--and his general good will is infectious--yet the music, the milieu, and the material never quite come together. * from ****

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