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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)
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With a cast like this...
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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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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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Lorenz Hart was asked to write more commercially appealing lyrics to "The Bad in Every Man" after this movie was released. The result was "Blue Moon," which was copyrighted under that title in December 1934.
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Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the close up of the newspaper announcing Jim as the new D.A., in the upper right corner, the newspaper is being sold for "Five Cens".
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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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Bullets Over Hollywood (2005) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Academic Festival Overture in C, Opus 80
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With a cast like this, how can you go wrong? And the film is a delight from beginning to end. Although all the players were great, special kudos to William Powell, whose uncompromising morals cause him to lose almost everything he has. His is a gut-wrenching performance, and the scene in which he addresses the assembly with tears in his eyes to tell of his own "weakness"--wow. It's rare to see Powell in a role with so much complexity and it is a marvelous performance.