Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
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Ernie Alexander
- Milk Wagon Driver
- (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
- Grocery Store Proprietor
- (uncredited)
Bonita
- Woman Assisting the Clapmans
- (uncredited)
Hazel Boyne
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
Lillian Castle
- Woman Assisting the Kaplans
- (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham
- Mechanic
- (uncredited)
R. Chrysler
- Truck Driver
- (uncredited)
Davison Clark
- Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Claudia Coleman
- Mother
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaMGM originally announced Clark Gable for the lead and Mae Clarke for the role of "Shirley", but neither was in the movie. A contemporary news item also listed Christian Rub and Henry Wadsworth as cast members, but these actors were also not in the movie.
- GoofsThe policeman says that killing someone in a fight, unless the killer can prove self-defense, is murder. This is wrong. Murder requires malice aforethought. The killer in this instance would be guilty of manslaughter.
- ConnectionsVersion of Four Walls (1928)
- SoundtracksA Hundred Years from Today
(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Victor Young
Lyrics by Joe Young and Ned Washington
Played on a radio and sung by an unidentified man
Played also on a record and often as background music
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Battle for Benny
Stop me if you've heard this one before:
A man gets out of prison. He wants to go straight, but he can't because of his record, so he returns to a life of crime.
That's what Benny Horowitz's story was shaping up to be. Benny (Franchot Tone) was recently released from prison after a five year stretch. He went right back to his old neighborhood where he was sure to run into his old crew. The only thing that was going to keep him from being a recidivist was his mother (played by May Robson) and perhaps a caring friend named Bertha (Karen Morley). He wanted to go straight for his sake and his mother's sake, but there were many forces trying to pull him back into street life. Among them were Monk, who was played by Jack La Rue, the perennial gangster and thug. I bet Jack La Rue played a gangster in half or more of his roles--especially in the early-thirties. Also trying to bring Benny down was his old girlfriend Shirley (Gladys George). She was a real piece of work.
I liked "Straight is the Way." It didn't go really deep into the troubles of being an ex-con, but you got the idea. It was a solid enough story with decent enough performances.
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A man gets out of prison. He wants to go straight, but he can't because of his record, so he returns to a life of crime.
That's what Benny Horowitz's story was shaping up to be. Benny (Franchot Tone) was recently released from prison after a five year stretch. He went right back to his old neighborhood where he was sure to run into his old crew. The only thing that was going to keep him from being a recidivist was his mother (played by May Robson) and perhaps a caring friend named Bertha (Karen Morley). He wanted to go straight for his sake and his mother's sake, but there were many forces trying to pull him back into street life. Among them were Monk, who was played by Jack La Rue, the perennial gangster and thug. I bet Jack La Rue played a gangster in half or more of his roles--especially in the early-thirties. Also trying to bring Benny down was his old girlfriend Shirley (Gladys George). She was a real piece of work.
I liked "Straight is the Way." It didn't go really deep into the troubles of being an ex-con, but you got the idea. It was a solid enough story with decent enough performances.
Free on Odnoklassniki.
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