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The Naked Street
(1955)
Anne's Niche: Actress
Character: Rosalie Regalzyk
Cast and Crew
My Too Cents: This movie I liked a lot. It made me laugh. Anne
basically plays a big-time Brooklyn gangter's sister. She pretends not to
realise that her brother is a bad man, in fact she thinks just the opposite
because he is good to his family. Lots of stuff happens and she eventually has
to come to terms that her brother is a crook. I liked it because it seems that
most of the gangster flicks of the time just portrayed the bad side, this
showed the family side.
Synopsis:
___This solid, fast-paced
crime tale stars Quinn as a brutal and powerful gangster who is shocked to
learn that his sister, Bancroft, is pregnant by a small-time hood about
to be executed. Not wanting his sister to wind up an unwed mother, Quinn
pulls every trick in the book to get the father of the baby, Granger,
out of the electric chair. The scheme works and Granger soon finds
himself married to Bancroft, which does not please him. When the baby
is stillborn, Quinn flies into a rage and persecutes Granger. Granger
reacts by diving once again into a life of crime, cheating on
Bancroft all the while. Outraged, Quinn frames Granger on a murder
rap, sending the kid back to the chair. Before he is executed,
Granger spills the beans to Graves, a local reporter and former
childhood sweetheart of Bancroft. Graves turns the heat on Quinn
in the press and soon the pressure from the district attorney causes
one of the mob boss's hoods to crack. Armed with enough evidence to
put Quinn away, the police move in on the crime boss. Quinn
attempts to escape in a chase across the rooftops, but he slips
and falls to his death. Rid of all the unsavory elements in her
life, Bancroft rekindles her romance with Graves. While the script
for THE NAKED STREET isn't particularly original or clever, the
film makes the most of its fine cast. Quinn brings a varied set
of emotions to his brutish character, which even allows this cruel
mobster to look forward to the day he will become an uncle. It's
Bancroft, however, who steals the film as the forever-manipulated
sister who is allowed no choices of her own.
(TV Guide)
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