Big City

Year: 1948

Runtime: 103 mins

Language: English

Director: Norman Taurog

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Excitement from Dusk to Dawn! A young orphan in New York’s Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men–a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

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