Enjoyable slice-of-life-in-a-tenement drama, sort of like Street Scene with the gangster element played up. The main plots concern an architect graduate struggling to find work in the depression; his childhood friend, a wanted gangster, who comes home to discover his mother doesn’t want him and his ex is a hooker; a young woman trying to prevent her younger brother (one of what became known as the Dead End Kids – not a massive presence here) from going to a life of crime. Effective stuff which makes points about poverty that are still relevant today. A decent enough production, with Richard Conte being the best known member of the cast (he plays the architect).
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