A Lion Is in the Streets

In the South, peddler marries school teacher and then starts on a whirlwind rise politically, using hysteria among cotton pickers and small-town folk as his device.
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 23, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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User Ratings: 27
Rating: B- -- Pure Hollywood balderdash. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 16, 2006
A film with a great cast where the absolute star of the show, never better said, is James Cagney. [Full review in Spanish] Full Review
Espinof
Feb 7, 2017
Uneven but often powerful look at poor people in revolt. Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Jun 26, 2011
James Cagney exhibits much of his old-time bantam force and magnetism in a story about a cottonstate fascist. But the movie compares weakly with All the King's Men, which it resembles. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Dec 2, 2019

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In the South, peddler marries school teacher and then starts on a whirlwind rise politically, using hysteria among cotton pickers and small-town folk as his device. His rise is halted when his crooked goings-on are exposed. Based on the novel by Adria Locke Langley.

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A lively street peddler of snake-oil puts his pitching skills to good use on the campaign trail when he decides to become a politician.

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  • UPC: 883316127018
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