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Big City Blues  (1932)


On his first wide-eyed night in New York, a small town boy (Eric Linden) falls in with a mob of showgirls and hustlers who leave him to take a murder rap after a wild party.  Joan Blondell takes pity on him—or maybe she’s falling in love—and leads him through woods in this pulpy pre-Code quickie.

16mm, b/w, 63 min.  DIR: Mervyn LeRoy.  SCR: Ward Morehouse, Lillie Hayward.  CAST: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Walter Catlett.