{"id":40829,"date":"2025-12-22T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40829"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:02:22","slug":"the-strip-1951-starring-mickey-rooney-and-sally-forrest-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40829","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Strip&#8221; (1951) starring Mickey Rooney and Sally Forrest \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z122225zview_thestrip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Strip <\/strong><\/em>(1951)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Kardos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Allen Rivkin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig, Louis Armstrong, Tom Powers, Vic Damone, Monica Lewis, Don Anderson \u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Tommy Rettig.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Torchy romance tingling with mystery and throbbing with the rhythm of Dixieland along the glamorous avenue of night clubs!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Stanley Maxton is released from a long hospital stay due to injuries sustained in the Korean War, he heads for LA..\u00a0 He dreams of becoming a successful drummer and owning his own club some day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A chance encounter earns Stanley a high-paying job working for mobster Sonny Johnston. In no time Stanley has money, a fine car and flashy clothes.\u00a0 Then he meets Jane Tafford.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a nightclub dancer who dreams of becoming a movie star.\u00a0 Stanley falls hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So hard, he quits working for Sonny and takes a lower paying job as a drummer at the club where Jane is a dancer.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s no go.\u00a0 Jane is only interested in becoming a star and a nightclub drummer can&#8217;t help her with that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stanley takes Jane to meet Sonny.\u00a0 Stanley figures Sonny&#8217;s mob connections can get Jane an audition.\u00a0 Problem is, even though he&#8217;s married, Sonny falls for Jane.\u00a0 This puts Stanley and Sonny at odds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So when a woman is murdered, and evidence points to Stanley, he knows who set him up.\u00a0 Time is running out to prove his innocence.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Strip<\/em> earned one 1952 <em>Academy Award<\/em> nomination&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nominee for <em>Best Music, Original Song<\/em> &#8211; For <em>&#8220;A Kiss to Build a Dream On&#8221; &#8211; <\/em><strong>Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Strip<\/em> is as much (if not more) a musical than a crime noir. The film features songs performed by Vic Damone, Monica Lewis, Jack Teagarden, and Louis Armstrong, floor show routines by Sally Forrest as well as drum solos by Mickey Rooney.<\/p>\n<p>The film features an unexpected dark (for a musical featuring Mickey Rooney) twist.<\/p>\n<p>Louie Armstrong, Vic Damone and Monica Lewis play themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The Strip <\/strong><\/em>(1951) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z122225zview_thestrip2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strip (1951) Director: L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Kardos Screenplay: Allen Rivkin Stars: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig, Louis Armstrong,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,64,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-music","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40832,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829\/revisions\/40832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}