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On the Bowery

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })On the Bowery is a 1957 film directed by Louis Rogosin.Once upon a time, poor people lived on Manhattan Island. Specifically, many of them lived in the Bowery, a run-down neighborhood on the Lower East Side. The Bowery was a haven for alcoholic drifters, mostly men, living desperate existences in filthy flophouses, or in charitable missions, or as this film shows, often sleeping on the street.Into this sad scene enters Ray, who is — like everyone else in the Bowery — an alcoholic bum. Ray, however, is somewhat younger and handsomer than the grizzled old hobos who make up the bulk of the community. He arrives in town with a little bit of money from laboring, and hopes of a better future, but the lure of the Bowery draws him back into old habits.Although this film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, it isn't really a documentary; Rogosin wrote a fictional story, and recruited denizens of the Bowery to act it out for him on film. As late as the 1990s the Bowery was still a haven for penniless winos, but gentrification has changed the neighborhood radically in the 21st century.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 And the Adventure Continues: A depressing example. Gorman has a wad of cash that he got from stealing and pawning Ray's watch. He feels bad enough about this to give Ray a few dollars, which Ray plans to use to buy a clean set of clothes, which will improve his odds of getting day laborer work, which would help him escape the Bowery. Gorman tells the other bums about Ray's plan to work for money to get himself to Chicago. The last line of dialogue is a more cynical hobo saying "He'll be back." The movie then ends with a scene showing Ray loitering on the streets.
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 The Alcoholic: All of them. In one scene Ray has a drink with Gorman but remarks that he shouldn't drink any more, lest he spend the money he managed to scrounge together for a room in a flophouse. Three bars later, Ray is passing out in the street.
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 Amateur Cast: Rogosin recruited Bowery bums to act out his story. Ray's friend Gorman died before this film was first shown.
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