A Lion Is in the Streets

Charismatic roving peddler Hank Martin (James Cagney) falls in love at first sight with schoolteacher Verity Wade (Barbara Hale) and soon marries her. On their wedding day, he rents a ramshackle home from his upper class lawyer friend Jules Bolduc (Warner Anderson). Hank rounds up some of his many friends to fix up the place, but Verity begins to realize that he is not as nice as he appears to be; while they do the work, he sees nothing wrong in going inside to read a law book. He confides to her that it is all a matter of manipulating people the right way.

MPAA Rating:NR
Genre:Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country:United States
Produced By:William Cagney
Directed By:Raoul Walsh
Written By:Luther Davis, Adria Locke Langley
Cast:Al Bain, Sara Haden, Mary Margaret Robinson, Johnny Reese, Jack Tornek, Ben Corbett, Ellen Corby, Jeanne Cagney, Anne Francis, Herbert Lytton, Bill Clark, Frank O'Connor, Charles Sherlock, Lon Chaney Jr., Guy Way, Burt Mustin, Glen Walters, Nadine Ashdown, James Cagney, Henry Kulky, Paul Gustine, Emmett Lynn, Cecil Combs, James Griffith, Larry Keating, James Dime, Bert Stevens, Al Haskell, Charles Meredith, Chalky Williams, Dick Johnstone, Joe Gilbert, Russell Custer, Rose Plumer, Robert Haines, Robert Wilson, Noreen Corcoran, Heinie Conklin, Robert Robinson, Mickey Simpson, Chester Hayes, Kit Guard, Dan White, Jeffrey Sayre, Slim Gaut, Sarah Selby, Onslow Stevens, Cap Somers, William 'Bill' Phillips, Scott Seaton, Rudy Bowman, James Gonzalez, Fay Roope, Charles Sullivan, Jack Montgomery, Pearl S. Cooper, Arthur Tovey, James Millican, Mike Morelli, Barbara Hale, Bill Coontz, Bert Keyes, George DeNormand, John Breen, Lee Aaker, Ann Kunde, Danny Borzage, James Conaty, Irene Tedrow, Harry Raven, Jimmie Horan, Victor Adamson, Elias Gamboa, Frank McHugh, Phil Tully, Sam McDaniel, Allen D. Sewall, Hank Mann, Rudy Germane, Duke Fishman, Warner Anderson, Roland Winters, Mathew McCue, Carl Andre, Gene Coogan, Nora Bush, John McIntire, Phil Tead, Norman Stevans, George Sawaya
In Theaters:Sep 23, 1953
Runtime:1 hour 28 minutes
Production:William Cagney Productions
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