Manhattan Melodrama plot
"RECKLESS with WOMEN...He pursued them ..."petted" them...promised them nothing and got away with everything!"
Two small children are orphaned when their parents die in a shipwreck. They grow up together. When they are adults, each follows his own path. Jim Wade (Powell) becomes a magistrate and Blackie Gallagher (Gable) a casino owner. Gallagher is in the criminal world and his mistress (Loy) begs him to end his criminal life, but he doesn't listen to her.