Aug 31, 1951
85 min
Full-HD

The Strip (1951)

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.

Category

Crime Drama Music

Country

United States of America

Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Mickey Rooney

Stanley Maxton

Sally Forrest

Jane Tafford

William Demarest

Fluff

James Craig

Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson

Kay Brown

Edna

Louis Armstrong

Himself

Myrna Dell

Paulette Ardrey

Vic Damone

Himself

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