The Strip

The Strip

M-G-M's musical melodrama of the Dancer and the Drummer!

NR 1951 · 85 min · ★ 5.9 · Crime, Drama, Music

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.

Directed by László Kardos · Written by Allen Rivkin

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