Crime · Drama
Crime in the Streets
How can you tell them to be good when their girl friends like them better when they're bad!...
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
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James Whitmore
Ben Wagner
Sal Mineo
Angelo 'Baby' Gioia
John Cassavetes
Frankie Dane
Mark Rydell
Lou Macklin
Virginia Gregg
Mrs. Dane
Peter J. Votrian
Richie Dane (as Peter Votrian)
Will Kuluva
Mr. Gioia
Malcolm Atterbury
Mr. McAllister
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John Chard
6/103/29/2020
Sucking around is my job. Crime in the Streets is directed by Don Siegel and written by Reginald Rose. It stars John Cassavetes, James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Virginia Gregg, Peter J. Votrian, Will Kuluva and Malcolm Atterbury. Music is scored by Franz Waxman and cinematography by Sam Leavitt. Social worker Ben Wagner (Whitmore) tries to help local slum gang, The Hornets, especially their troubled leader Frankie Dane (Cassavetes). When your body hits that sidewalk nobody will even turn around to look at yah. Decent "juve delinquent" lecture movie, Crime in the Streets boasts some mightily impressive performances and closes on a (expected) piece of dramatic worth, but the screenplay is staid and pic is claustrophobic for all the wrong reasons. There's a cramped cheapne
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