On the Bowery
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Documentary. Drama
The film chronicles three desperate days in a then impoverished lower Manhattan neighborhood, New York's skid row: the Bowery. It is the story of Ray, a railroad worker, who drifts on to the Bowery to have a drunken spree after a long bout of laying tracks and then falls in with a band of drunks who help him spend his money. Ray, the" new guy on the Bowery" whose biceps still fill out his sleeves, looks preoccupied as he enters the ... [+]