Ya know... a second viewing brought a few things more into focus to me and I liked it a little better.
Reviews of Side Streets 1934
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Ann Dvorak 🥰
Alone MacMahon 😍
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There's plenty to like in Side Streets. It's simple and to the point, but Aline MacMahon puts in a lovely performance.
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Aline McMahon is really great in this. It's a bit of a weepy, and even though she carries the picture, it's the no good sailor husband who sleeps around and gets to have the redemption.
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Aline MacMahon is phenomenal in this. A late pre-Code melodrama from Warner Bros.’ First National Pictures, released a day before the Code went into effect.
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I really like these B movies that are helmed by a great character actor that turn out to be wonderful films. This is what I’m hoping to find when I watch all those obscure TCM movies. I also really like short films that manage to still tell a complex story and this certainly qualifies at just 63 minutes. Aline MacMahon is the character actor in question here and she is great as always.
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As so often happens in 30s films, especially weepies from Warners, good women are put upon by bad men, with the only real character arc being a possible redemption for the man.
This iteration has a lot going for it. It’s a rather original setting- in an old San Francisco house, a determined single woman has built up a fur business during the depression. “Madame Valerie’s” isn’t a ritzy place on the boulevard, but a more affordable spot on a…
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A Depression era furrier loses her heart to a feckless sailor. Great chemistry between Aline MacMahon and Ann Dvorak as the sailor's other amour.
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A beautiful, simple pre code rendered something akin to thrilling on account of its uncanny naturalism and a reliably incredible performance by Aline McMahon, whom I am more and more convinced was the finest actress of the 1930’s. A lovely little film, a minor classic by virtue of performances so truthful and heartbreaking (and, yes, ahead of their time in their embrace of naturalism) they’re disarming. Great discovery.
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I’m a little bit in love with this one.
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A lot of animals died for the furs shown in this movie. There is too much melodrama that doesn't seem believable, yet it grew on me. Aline MacMahon (attractive to me) makes this movie. I like the atmosphere with an occasional noirish style. I can believe it's right at the port to the point I'm sure a chowder house is right around the corner.
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