Johnny Apollo (1940)

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Writers:

Samuel G. Engel (story) and
Hal Long (story) ...

Release Date:

19 April 1940 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Not since "Jesse James" has he had such as role!

Plot:

The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.

Plot Keywords:

Lawyer | Prison | Millionaire | Singer | College

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tyrone Power	...	Bob Cain aka Johnny Apollo
Dorothy Lamour	...	Lucky Dubarry
Edward Arnold	...	Robert 'Pop' Cain Sr.
Lloyd Nolan	...	Mickey Dwyer aka The Mick
Charley Grapewin	...	Judge Emmett T. Brennan
Lionel Atwill	...	Jim McLaughlin
Marc Lawrence	...	Bates
Jonathan Hale	...	Dr. Brown
Harry Rosenthal	...	Piano Player
Russell Hicks	...	District Attorney
Fuzzy Knight	...	Cellmate
Charles Lane	...	Assistant District Attorney
Selmer Jackson	...	Warden (as Selmar Jackson)
Charles Trowbridge	...	Judge Penrose
John Hamilton	...	Judge

Also Known As:

Dance with the Devil (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #5935) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Debut of Anthony Caruso.

Quotes:

Prisoner Tom Dugan: I steal an empty slot machine and get 10 years, and this guy steals a million and gets 5. Figure that out, will yuh?
Main Reporter: [Sarcastically] That's why you got the 10 - to figure it out.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Remington Steele: Cast in Steele (#3.9)" (1984)

Soundtrack:

This Is the Beginning of the End

Could Have Been Better

VHenry Hathaway was a very important director. And the four major performers had long, varyingly impressive careers as well: Tyrone Power was handsome and worked hard. Here is not very believable, though. He plays the son of a superb actor: Edward Arnold. Arnold is a financier who does something crooked and as the story opens gets sent to prison. Power rejects him and starts hanging out with a really bad guy, played by Lloyd Nolan -- was another fine actor. And Dorothy Lamour, always likable and pretty,as always, does well in a role darker than the Road pictures for which is most famous Possibly least believable is everyone's calling Power by the name he's taken on after eschewing his father: the eponymous Johnny Apollo. The police call him this. The gangsters do too. Doesn't it seem a rather unlikely surname to anyone? Doesn't anyone do background checks on his character? It's beautifully filmed and but it's fluffy rather than gritty.