When a smart-aleck street kid's police officer father is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater, but really wants to become a police officer to avenge his father's death.


Heroes of the Street is less a relic of 1922 than a soot-smudged mirror held up to any metropolis that still feeds on orphaned ambition. Edmund Goulding’s name on the title card—years before he glamorized Garbo—signals mercurial DNA: the same hand that will later lace Grand Hotel with velvet despair here scribbles c...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

William Beaudine

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" Heroes of the Street is less a relic of 1922 than a soot-smudged mirror held up to any metropolis that still feeds on orphaned ambition. Edmund Goulding’s name on the title card—years before he glamorized Garbo—signals mercurial DNA: the same hand that will later lace Grand Hotel with velvet despair here scribbles chalk outlines on cobblestones. The screenplay, four-headed courtesy of Mildred Considine, Lee Parker, Isabel Johnston, and Goulding himself, stitches together Dickensian grief and ..."
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Mildred Considine, Lee Parker, Edmund Goulding, Isabel Johnston
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