The Strip

1951 "M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!"
6.1| 1h25m| NR| en
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Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.

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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
HeadlinesExotic Boring
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
DKosty123 I am thinking when I look at the scenery here, that these clubs rolling across the screen are clubs that populated the Vegas strip in the late 1940's. The film uses the classic Hollywood flash back technique to tell it's story, film noir style.The problem with the story is the main romance is one sided. The reason behind this is that the girl just doesn't love the drummer. This causes a major drag on the script as the viewer has trouble caring about the main characters because of this.What I enjoy about this most is Louie Armstrong and his orchestra. William Demarest is solid in support but gets just pieces of script to deliver. The music is the best character. The actors and actresses are secondary. I think if the story were better with this cast, this movie could have been more memorable.Instead it comes off as the B feature it surely was. The music is so good that you wind up wishing the film had more than it delivers.
Santosh Mohapatra I must say i am a big fan of TCM but this one was one of those movies which won't ever belong to the category of Roman Holiday or Affair to Remember and yet it has a charm and passion that leaves an indelible memory of sorts for people who love the 50s or to be more generic..... 1930s to 1960s movies. Personally, the semblance of the era in both Hollywood & bollywood movies in terms of the simple, low-cost, high impact movies is what is so nice about them. "Give me a kiss to build a dream on" -: the refrain of the movie as catches the passion of the theme well and is the best thing of the movie. Even though most of the movie is supposed to be predictable, the passion yet makes it a gr8 watch. A recent Hindi movie(bollywood) lifted the tunes to give "Kaisi paheli hai kaisi paheli zindagani" which won the national awards for best song. That movie"Parineeta" too is a period based movie that makes a 1930s story into a 1960s movie made in 2005 and what better than this tune being woven into the movie.
David (Handlinghandel) Mickey Rooney isn't convincing in the role of a nice guy who falls in with a bad crowd. His acting is OK. He just doesn't look the part. Sally Forrest has been better elsewhere.The plot, told primarily in flashback, is routine: Honest boy in dishonest profession falls for cold, ambitious girl. Murder is involved. The whole nine yards. One has to like jazz to enjoy this. And was Vic Damone, for whom the plot stops while he delivers a number, considered jazz? On the other hand, the main song, originally delivered in a bizarre duet between Rooney and William Demarest, is a great one. "A Song To Build A Dream ON": Such a gem deserved a better setting.
bmacv The murder/suspense plot is little more than a convenient set of bookends to showcase the post-adolescent Mickey Rooney, Sally Forest and a gathering of jazz greats (Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, Vic Damone) in the setting of a Sunset Strip nightspot. James Craig isn't bad as the mustachioed "heavy" doting on his office foliage (after Dewey's defeat in '48, mustaches became quite unAmerican). This movie is neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring, and only marginally "noir" by virtue of date, setting and plotline, but it's watchable -- the music and dance numbers are pretty good. Like a couple of other films ("The Man I Love;" "Love Me or Leave Me") it gives evidence that a new genre might have been in formation: the musical noir.