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Big City Blues ()

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Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.
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Vida Fleet
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Bud Reeves
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Mrs. Serena Cartlich
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Mr. 'Stacky' Stackhouse
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Hummell, the House Detective
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Station Agent
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Cousin 'Gibby' Gibboney
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Faun
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Detective Quelkin (as Thomas Jackson)
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First Waiter (uncredited)
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Shep Adkins (uncredited)
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Chief of Police (uncredited)
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Red, Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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Jackie DeVoe (uncredited)
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Mabel (uncredited)
Eddie Graham ...
Bus Station Clerk (uncredited)
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Joe (uncredited)
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Driver (uncredited)
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Jo-Jo (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
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Musician in Speakeasy (uncredited)
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Baggage Master (uncredited)
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Second Waiter (uncredited)
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Gossip at 55 Club (uncredited)
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Nightclub Singer (uncredited)
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Bootlegger (uncredited)
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Dice Spectator (uncredited)
Henry Otho ...
Subway Guide (uncredited)
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Jim (uncredited)
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Radio Announcer (uncredited) (voice)
Harry Seymour ...
Reporter Telephoning (uncredited)
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Agnes (uncredited)
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Hotel Maid (uncredited)
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Len 'Lenny' Sully (uncredited)
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Lorna St. Clair (uncredited)
Jack Wise ...
Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)

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Mervyn LeRoy

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Ward Morehouse ... (play "New York Town")
 
Ward Morehouse ... (screenplay) &
Lillie Hayward ... (screenplay)

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Ray Heindorf ... (uncredited)
Bernhard Kaun ... (uncredited)

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James Van Trees ... (photography by)

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Ray Curtiss

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Anton Grot

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Leo F. Forbstein ... conductor
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Seventy-two hours in the life of Indiana man Bud who inherits money and heads for New York City where his cousin Gibbony introduces him to chorus girl Vida for whom he falls. When a girl is killed by a drunk at a party in his hotel room, Bud is the chief suspect. Written by Ed Stephan

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Also Known As
  • Blues wielkiego miasta (Poland)
  • Блюз большого города (Soviet Union, Russian title)
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  • 63 min
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Trivia Humphrey Bogart's first film for Warner Bros., where he would sign a long-term contract four years later and eventually become a star. This was his ninth appearance in films. He appeared in Big City Blues (1932) in an uncredited role as "Shep Adkins." See more »
Goofs Humphrey Bogart wears a solid colour tie, while his double doesn't. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Bacall on Bogart (1988). See more »
Soundtracks Somebody Loves Me See more »
Quotes Bud Reeves: Oh, I don't think you got to really know New York.
Station Agent: I wonder. I wonder if I didn't. I was a telegraph operator and a process server. I was a part-time life guard at Rockaway Beach. I worked on the BMT and drove a taxi. I was a rubber in a Turkish bath. Had a job on the day shift in the Hymnbook factory and on the night shift in the bowery flop house---a job they handed to let me to work out my rent. I drew wages in a hash house and a 'chink' laundry and a pet shop. For a week I sorted stiffs in the morgue and for a month worked on a coal barge. I delivered gin for a drug store in Astoria and had my own ice business in the Bronx. I met tramps and bootleggers and bishops and reporters and gun men and borough presidents and you, you come-a tellin' me I didn't get to know New York.
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