Side Street
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Side Street |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 83 minutes |
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| Director | Anthony Mann |
| script | Sydney Boehm |
| production | Sam Zimbalist |
| music | Lennie Hayton |
| camera | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| cut | Conrad A. Annoying |
| occupation | |
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Side Street is in black and white twisted American film noir of Anthony Mann dating from the 1950s.
action
Joe Norson lives in New York with his pregnant wife Ellen with his in-laws and makes ends meet in New York with a part-time job as a parcel delivery. When he passes the deserted office of attorney Victor Backett on his daily route, he steals an envelope that he believes to be $ 200 because of an observation from the lecture. When he opens it in a safe place, he finds $ 30,000 in it, which comes from the extortion of Backett's wealthy client Emil Lorrison, which the lawyer staged together with the professional criminal George Carsell and the prostitute Lucille Colner.
Joe, who doesn't know where the money came from, panic because his crime has taken on unforeseen dimensions. He deposited the money package with Nick, the bar owner he knew, claiming it was a nightgown that he wanted to give Ellen as a present. In turn, he makes Ellen believe that his wealth comes from an advance on a new job in the province. At the same time, a murder is reported to the New York police: the body of Lucille Colner was fished from the East River. The police found Colner's address book in their apartment and then interrogated the people listed in it, including Backett.
After the birth of his child, Joe decides to return the stolen money. He wants to pick up the money package in Nick's bar, but Nick has meanwhile sold the bar. However, the new owner finds the package in a counter and leaves it to Joe. When Joe tries to hand the package to Backett, he suspects the police have been caught and refuses the offer. Instead, he instructs Garsell and his accomplice, taxi driver Larry Giff, to get Joe's money back. The two drag Joe into Giff's taxi and take the package from him. When it turns out that it only contains a nightgown, Joe's situation becomes threatening. After telling Garsell that Nick must have the money, he can escape at a red light.
Joe goes in search of Nick. When he finally finds him, he comes too late: Garsell has taken the money from him and strangled him. Since the police suspect Joe as a murderer, he goes into hiding. In order to prove his innocence, he wants to expose the real murderer and goes in search of Garsell. When he locates his ex-girlfriend, the nightclub singer Harriette Sinton, she pretends to want to help, but betrays him to Garsell and Larry. Garsell plans to murder Joe and knocks him out. He then strangles Harriett to eliminate a potential witness and puts both of them in the taxi to throw them into the river.
Shortly after the taxi leaves, the police, whom Garsell has meanwhile identified as the murderer of Lucille Colner, arrive and a chase develops through the streets of Manhattan. When Giff wants to give up, Garsell shoots him and forces Joe, who has regained consciousness, to take the wheel. To end the nightmare, Joe intentionally causes an accident in which the car overturns. When Garsell climbs out of the car and tries to run away, he is shot by the police. Joe is rescued from the car injured. Shortly before being transported to the hospital, Ellen appears at the scene of the accident and they hug.
background
Side Street opened in U.S. theaters on March 23, 1950. It did not come to cinemas in Germany.
Web links
- Side Street in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , pp. 256-257.