The Bowery (1933) is a classic period film about the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the century. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and featured Wallace Beery as saloon owner Chuck Connors, George Raft as Steve Brodie, the first man to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and live, Jackie Cooper as a pugnacious child, Fay Wray (in the same year as King Kong) as the leading lady, and Pert Kelton (the first "Alice Kramden" on Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners) as a bawdy dance hall singer. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Categories: Manhattan neighborhoods | Stub ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Raoul Walsh (11 March 1887 – 31 December 1980) was an American film director. ... Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor, best known for his many cinema appearances. ... Raft in They Drive by Night George Raft (September 26, 1895 - November 24, 1980) was an American film actor most closely identified with his portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. ... Steve Brodie (1863–1901) was a Brooklyn bookmaker who claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived on July 23, 1886. ... Jackie Cooper as a child actor Jackie Cooper (born John Cooper, Jr. ... Publicity photo for King Kong ca 1933 Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress, who was born Vina Fay Wray on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada. ... King Kong battles a pterosaur in the 1933 version King Kong in the 2005 version of King Kong King Kong is the name of a fictional, giant gorilla who appears in several works that bear his name, including the groundbreaking 1933 film, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, and... Pert Kelton (1907-1968) was an American vaudeville, movie, and television actress. ... Cover of a book about the Honeymooners. ...

The film isn't exactly a festival of political correctness, but it is an absorbing presentation of the views and behaviors common at the time. At one point, Cooper's character throws a rock through a Chinatown window, knocking over a kerosene lamp and causing a lethal fire that spreads through the block. When Beery's character berates him for carelessly killing so many innocent Chinese people, Cooper's character responds, "They was just Chinks," whereupon Beery says, "Awww..." and affectionately musses the boy's hair. Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ... New York City is home to three of the largest Chinatowns in North America. ...