Street Angel (1928)

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1930	Nominated	Oscar	Best Art Direction Harry Oliver No official nominees had been announced this year.
			Best Cinematography Ernest Palmer No official nominees had been announced this year.

Fox Film Corporation
Directed by Frank Borzage
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Janet Gaynor lives with her mother in a poor part of Naples. When her mother falls sick and needs medicine they can't afford, Janet considers becoming a prostitute and impulsively grabs a stack of money from someone eating spaghetti. The police are there immediately to arrest her and send her to prison, but she escapes and goes on the run. She falls in love with an equally poor painter, but before they can get married a policeman recognizes her and drags her off to prison. Years later, she is released and is soon back on the streets. She meets her old lover who has become bitter and almost homicidal. A good beginning and ending, but drags in the middle with some long, boring love scenes.