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Manhattan Melodrama
Directed by
W.S. Van Dyke
Not Rated
1934
1h 33m
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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.
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Cast of Manhattan Melodrama
Clark Gable
Edward J. 'Blackie' Gallagher
William Powell
Jim Wade
Myrna Loy
Eleanor Packer
Leo Carrillo
Father Joe
Nat Pendleton
Spud
George Sidney
Poppa Rosen
Isabel Jewell
Annabelle
Muriel Evans
Tootsie Malone
Thomas E. Jackson
Asst. Dist. Atty. Richard Snow
Isabelle Keith
Miss Adams
Noel Madison
Manny Arnold
Jimmy Butler
Jim Wade as a Boy
Mickey Rooney
Blackie as a Boy
Shirley Ross
Singer in Cotton Club
Donald Haines
Young Spud (uncredited)
Frank Conroy
Blackie's Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Leonid Kinskey
Trotskyite Slapping Poppa Rosen
Oscar Apfel
Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
William Bailey
Al Barnes (uncredited)
Curtis Benton
Announcer (uncredited)
Manhattan Melodrama Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
It's awfully contrived, but the stars do fine work.
The Hollywood Reporter
THR Staff
Audiences will not fail to react emotionally to the intelligent writing of it... Each situation is milked dry, yet never overplayed.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
This MGM prestige production, winner of the Original Story Oscar, features its top stars, Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy.
TIME Magazine
Well directed by W. S. Van Dyke, superbly photographed by famed Chinese Cinematographer James Wong Howe, Manhattan Melodrama is first-rate cinema, chiefly important because it marks the elevation to stardom of Myrna Loy.
TV Guide
A splendid example of 1930s hardboiled melodrama.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Noted as the last movie John Dillinger ever saw.
Variety
Variety Staff
Apart from the Clark Gable-William Powell stellar duo and Myrna Loy, who does an excellent job as the principal femme, the Arthur Caesar story is replete with punchy popularly-appealing ingredients.
DVDTalk.com
David Cornelius
The drama may be clunky and old-fashioned, but once Melodrama gets rolling, it never stops engaging the viewer.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
One finds a mechanical plot which is scarcely worthy of the cast, which includes Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Leo Carrillo.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Melodrama, yes. But effectively done with a dream cast.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This 1934 feature was the last movie John Dillinger saw before being gunned down outside the Biograph, and he might have had better luck on both counts.
eFilmCritic.com
Greg Muskewitz
A very adult film with a credibly thorough exploration of those decisions that become "every day" based upon the lifestyle of the decision-maker.
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