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A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
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23 September 1953 (USA) moreTagline:
THE ROARING STORY OF A GIVE-AND-TAKE GUY! He took plenty from the chiselers...the crooks...and the tin-horns...and gave 'em nothing in return!Plot:
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making? full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
"I've been your wife ever since I knew what the world meant" moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| James Cagney | ... | Hank Martin | |
| Barbara Hale | ... | Verity Wade | |
| Anne Francis | ... | Flamingo McManamee | |
| Warner Anderson | ... | Jules Bolduc | |
| John McIntire | ... | Jeb Brown | |
| Jeanne Cagney | ... | Jennie Brown | |
| Lon Chaney Jr. | ... | Spurge McManamee (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Frank McHugh | ... | Frank Rector | |
| Larry Keating | ... | Robert L. Castleberry IV | |
| Onslow Stevens | ... | Guy Polli | |
| James Millican | ... | Samuel T. Beach | |
| Mickey Simpson | ... | Tim Beck, Blacksmith | |
| Sara Haden | ... | Lula May McManamee | |
| Ellen Corby | ... | Singing Woman |
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USA:Approved (PCA #16499)Fun Stuff
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Verity Wade: It's these folks. They're all so wonderful.Hank Martin: Well, all folks is wonderful. You just have to know the right place to kick 'em in.
Verity Wade: What?
Hank Martin: Sure. It's like learnin' to play a musical instrument by ear. All you gotta know is what place to push to get what note. Then pretty soon, everybody's dancin'...to your tune.
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Cagney (clever & aggressive) is seen peddling his wares in the back-hills country of a cotton-growing southern state... He falls for beautiful Barbara Hale, a sympathetic grade-school teacher from up North... They wed and honeymoon in a small house supplied by aristocratic Warner Anderson...
Watchful to the possibilities of a political career in which he could easily become the governor of the state, Cagney increases his interest in a blonde tramp called Flamingo (Anne Francis), a violent and turbulent woman, who in a fit of jealousy nearly gets rid of her competitor (Barbara Hale) in a premeditated swamp accident...
Barbara Hale is sweet, charming and understanding, but she has the least showy role in a film full to the disintegrating point with well-delineated colorful characters performed by a very experienced cast...
Raoul Walsh's direction keeps the film moving lively and Harry Stradling's excellent Technicolor photography captures the very atmosphere of the deep South...