City Streets
Starring: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Producer: E. Lloyd Sheldon
City Streets is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic melodrama directed by Rouben Mamoulian from a story by Dashiell Hammett and stars Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas. The story concerns a racketeer's daughter, Nan, who is in love with a shooting gallery showman, who is known as The Kid.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Crime writer Dashiell Hammett, under contract to Paramount, wrote a short plot outline entitled "After School" about a girl of 16 who collaborates in crime with her bootlegger stepfather and is sent briefly to reform school.
- By late 1930 a screenplay was completed, the protagonists had been re-characterized as young adults.
- Mamoulian, to evade studio artistic control, refrained from making any explicit alterations to the Garrett/Marin scenario in advance of filming.
Previous Showings
6 Runs • 3 Festivals
1,305 tickets sold
Original Billings: 2 runs (May 3, 1931 - October 14, 1938)
Original Run: May 3, 1931 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (6):
- May 3, 1931 (Sunday - Tuesday)Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney
- October 14, 1938 (Friday - Saturday)Leo Carrillo, Edith Fellows
- February 8, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ Applause
- July 14 - 16, 2010 · 660 ticketsSummer 2010w/ Desire
- March 25 - 26, 2015 · 274 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Monte Carlo
- March 27 - 28, 2025 · 371 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ Applause