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Post a Comment. The first time I saw the Greer Garson film Blossoms in the Dust I was surprised that Hollywood could manage an entire production not to mention one with four Academy Award nominations about the crusade to have the word illegitimate removed from birth certificates in the state of Texas. Apparently back then, the stigma was enough to handicap the unfortunately labeled child for life. No jobs, no education, no inheritance. There are countless films from the golden era of Hollywood that use scandal and what characters will do to avoid it to create dramatic tension. In The Naked Street , mob enforcer Phil Regal Anthony Quinn , who regularly has men beaten and killed, is so frightened of the idea that his knocked-up kid sister Rosalie Anne Bancroft might have to raise a bastard child, that he fantastically engineers the release of her beau from the death house at Sing Sing. It is positively stunning to consider that audiences would empathize with the idea that a hardened, violent killer would go to such means to protect his sister and her child from the whispers and smirks of square-type citizens.
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This solid, fast-paced crime tale stars Quinn as a brutal and powerful gangster who is shocked to learn that his sister, Bancroft, is pregnant by a small-time hood about to be executed. Not wanting his sister to wind up an unwed mother, Quinn pulls every trick in the book to get the father of the baby, Granger, out of the electric chair. The scheme works
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