"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ...

Saturday morning at six, on Fox Movie Channel, an underseen classic that, in itself, justified the legend of pre-Code Hollywood: “The Bowery,” Raoul Walsh’s wild, rowdy comic drama, from 1933, about ...