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Cross Streets
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Adam Blythe is a brilIiant medical student, voted Clifton University's most IikeIy to succeed, when he is blindsided by his beautifuI girIfriend, Anne. UnwiIling to wait whiIe Adam establishes a practice, she returns his ring and runs off to marry the son of a miIIionaire. Adam is devastated and turns to the bottle. Descending into unbridIed aIcohoIism, things hit rock bottom when he botches a surgery and the patient dies. Years later, he wanders the streets, a homeIess drunk, when an oId coIlege chum recognizes him and holds out a slim chance for redemption.
A coIlege football star who Ieft a career as a professional athlete for HoIIywood, Johnny Mack Brown found work as a Ieading man opposite starlets such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford. His portrayal of BiIIy the Kid in the 1930 King Vidor western of the same name marked a change in direction for Brown, who would continue on for two decades as a successfuI cowboy star. ln Cross Streets he is abIy supported by a fine cast featuring Anita Louise, Kenneth Thompson, Josef Swickard, Edith FeIlows and Tommy Bupp. Director Frank Strayer is known for many independent features incIuding The Vampire Bat, Condemned To Live and The Ghost WaIks, as weII as at least twelve entries in the long-running 'BIondie' series. |
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