On the Bowery (1957)
March 18, 1957Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Ray Salyer
Self
Gorman Hendricks
Self
Frank Matthews
Self
George L. Bolton
Self - Minister, Bowery Mission
Lionel Rogosin
Director
Richard Bagley
Producer / Director of Photography / Writer
Mark Sufrin
Producer / Writer
Charles Mills
Composer
Carl Lerner
Editor
Newton Avrutis
Other
Darwin Deen
Other
Martin Garcia
Other
Lucy Sabsay
Other
Greg Zilboorg Jr.
Other
Harold Gomberg
Conductor
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Details.
Release DateMarch 18, 1957
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 5m
Filming LocationsNew York City, United States of America
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This Movie Is About.
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On the Bowery is a 1956 American docufiction film directed by Lionel Rogosin. The film, Rogosin's first feature was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.After the Second World War, Lionel Rogosin made a vow to fight fascism and racism wherever he found it. In 1954, he left the family business, the Beaunit Mills-American Rayon Corporation, in order to make films in accordance with his ideals. As he needed experience, he looked around for a subject and was struck by the plight of the men on the Bowery, and he determined that a portrayal of their daily lives on the streets and in the bars of the New York City neighborhood would make a strong film. Thus, On the Bowery served as Rogosin's practice film for the subsequent filming of his anti-apartheid film Come Back, Africa (1960).
In 2008, On the Bowery was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".