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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
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Release Date:
4 May 1934 (USA)
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Plot:
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
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(5 articles)
DVD Review: Public Enemies
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Quite a movie
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Clark Gable | ... | Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher |
 | William Powell | ... | James W. 'Jim' Wade |
 | Myrna Loy | ... | Eleanor Packer |
 | Leo Carrillo | ... | Father Joe |
| Nat Pendleton | ... | Spud 'Spuddie' |
| George Sidney | ... | Poppa Rosen |
| Isabel Jewell | ... | Annabelle |
| Muriel Evans | ... | Tootsie Malone |
| Thomas E. Jackson | ... | Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow (as Thomas Jackson) |
| Isabelle Keith | ... | Miss Adams (Jim's secretary) (as Claudelle Kaye) |
| Frank Conroy | ... | Blackie's defense attorney |
| Noel Madison | ... | Manny Arnold |
| Jimmy Butler | ... | Jim Wade as a boy |
 | Mickey Rooney | ... | Blackie as a boy |
| Shirley Ross | ... | Singer in Cotton Club |
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Runtime:
93 min | USA:90 min (Turner library print)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Australia:G |
USA:Approved (PCA #3213-R, 16 March 1937 for re-release)
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This was the movie that bank robber John Dillinger had just seen before he was gunned down in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. He had been set up by Anna Sage, the madam of a brothel, who knew Dillinger's girlfriend, Polly Hamilton. Sage was facing deportation and thought the tip might get her off. She told FBI agent Melvin Purvis that she would be wearing orange which appeared red, leading her to be dubbed "The Woman in Red". Dillinger was shot three times when he tried to escape, and Sage wound up being sent back to Romania.
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Continuity: When Snow enters the men's room at Madison Square Garden, we see him enter the room and subsequently begin to close the door. In the next shot, showing him reflected in the mirrors above the basin, he is once again in the act of walking through the door.
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Quotes:
James W. 'Jim' Wade:
And I'm not sure, maybe ideals have ceased to exist. Maybe they're outmoded like um
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James W. 'Jim' Wade: oil lamps and horse cars. But they're mine, and I'm stuck with them.
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James W. 'Jim' Wade: oil lamps and horse cars. But they're mine, and I'm stuck with them.
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Referenced in Public Enemies (2009)
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Soundtrack:
Heart's Wounds
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They didn't name this "Manhatten *Melodrama* for nothing - it's classic melodrama! If you can get past the first fifteen minutes or so, what saves this film is the three leads: William Powell, Clark Gable, and Myrna Loy. As a Myrna Loy/William Powell fan, I love the whole scene from their first meeting, as she flings herself into his taxi, and he thinks she is out to wreck his career by pretending he assaulted her! Clark Gable is great as the charming bad guy, too. Of course, in this story about unpunished crime vs. betraying a friend, nobody ever considers the third way, but then it wouldn't be a melodrama anymore, would it? Anyway, if you enjoy golden oldies or any of the three main actors, it's worth watching.