The Strip
M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!
Rating: 5.9 out of 10TMDB(16 votes)
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Los Angeles
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Music
Music by Pete Rugolo
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Robert L. Surtees
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Allen RivkinWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 31, 1951
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
Production
Cast
Mickey RooneyStanley Maxton
Sally ForrestJane Tafford
William DemarestFluff
James CraigDelwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay BrownEdna
Louis ArmstrongHimself
Myrna DellPaulette Ardrey
Vic DamoneHimself- Art LewisSam
Tommy RettigArtie Ardrey
Tom PowersLt. Detective Bonnabel
Jonathan CottBehr
Jacqueline FontaineFrieda
Monica LewisHerself- Jack TeagardenHimself
Earl HinesHimself
Tommy FarrellBoynton
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