The Naked Street

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The combination of Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves, and Farley Granger in a crime thriller scanned as a “can’t miss” proposition. Or, at least, one that would be entertaining as popcorn-thriller junk food. The Naked Street found a way to waste this tony cast on a dull melodrama with crime thriller garnishes.   Quinn stars as a crime lord who gets his unwed pregnant sister (Banc... read more

Description: A ruthless crime lord saves his sister from social embarrassment by working diligently to get the gangster who fathered her unborn baby off death row and out of prison so he can do the decent thing and marry the girl. The freed gangster is not thrilled with his new bride, but stays loyal until the woman miscarries. He then returns to crime and begins messing with other women, something that outrages his wife's nefarious brother and leads him to frame the cocky youth and get him sent back to prison and certain death. Just before he is to die, the youth tells his story to a sympathetic reporter, who decides to go after the real tr A ruthless crime lord saves his sister from social embarrassment by working diligently to get the gangster who fathered her unborn baby off death row and out of prison so he can do the decent thing and marry the girl. The freed gangster is not thrilled with his new bride, but stays loyal until the woman miscarries. He then returns to crime and begins messing with other women, something that outrages his wife's nefarious brother and leads him to frame the cocky youth and get him sent back to prison and certain death. Just before he is to die, the youth tells his story to a sympathetic reporter, who decides to go after the real troublemaker. ... (more) (less)