Orchard Street

December. 31,1955 NR

Rating：

6.4

Genre：

History Documentary

Keywords：

New York Avant Garde Manhattan, New York City

Trailer Synopsis Cast

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

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Reviews

Reptileenbu

1955/12/31

Did you people see the same film I saw?

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ChanFamous

1956/01/01

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

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Doomtomylo

1956/01/02

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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Jonah Abbott

1956/01/03

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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boblipton

1956/01/04

I don't remember Orchard Street ever being this busy. By the time my father took me there as a boy of six or seven to buy my first suit -- from "Red", the same man who had sold him his first suit when he was about the same age -- it was a block of clothiers and cloth merchants, right around the corner from Katz' Delicatessen. People may have lived on the upper floors of the tenement buildings, but they worked and shopped elsewhere.The 1980s, with their high rents and yuppies put paid to the Orchard Street of this documentary. Even the pickle-makers moved away. Nowadays it is part of Soho, with cute little boutiques and trendy restaurants. Katz' is still around the corner on Houston, and Yonah Schimmel's knishes. The rest is gone. It's a good thing that Ken Jacobs made this film.

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