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The Strip(1951)
Status: Released
Date: 1951-08-31
56%
15 Votes
Time: 1h 25m
M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The Strip
Top 10 Billed Cast
Mickey Rooney
Stanley Maxton
Sally Forrest
Jane Tafford
William Demarest
Fluff
James Craig
Delwyn 'Sonny' Johnson
Kay Brown
Edna
Louis Armstrong
Himself
Myrna Dell
Paulette Ardrey
Vic Damone
Himself
Tommy Rettig
Artie Ardrey
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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.
Release Date
1951-08-31
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5.633
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!
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